#reading

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#artistic #basically #bent #coast #culture

A book worth reading is worth buying. ↗

— John Ruskin

#buying #reading #worth #worth reading

It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#bible #clergymen #deeply #effort #everywhere

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#expect #experience #i #me #readers

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information. ↗

— Serge Schmemann

#between #information #lines #manipulated #old

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury. ↗

— William Shatner

#authors #classic #enjoyed #i #isaac

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#forever #i #outside #reading #well

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#comics #image #instead #just #reading

This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read. ↗

— John Sladek

#food #hate #i #junk #junk food