#reading

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. ↗

— George W. Bush

#dumb #reading #reading-books

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#exercise #mind #reading

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#good #good life #life #living #reading

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#day #every #everyone #good #good day

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#cutting-edge #day #editing #every #every day

When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor. ↗

— David Antin

#already #being #experimental #got #i

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#awful #book #convent #disgusted #felt

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#course #dead #democracy #else #everything

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#effort #i #i can #letter #love

I keep reading between the lies. ↗

— Goodman Ace

#i #keep #lies #reading