#reading

We should affirm the great value of reading just for the fun of it. . . . In my experience, Christians are strangely reluctant to take this advice. We tend to be earnest people, always striving for self-improvement, and can be suspicious of mere recreation. But God doesn’t just create, he takes delight in his creation, and expects us to delight in it too; and since he has given us the desire to make things ourselves—has allowed us to be “sub-creators,” as J. R. R. Tolkien says--we may rightly take delight in the things that we (and others) make. Reading for the sheer delight of it—reading at whim—is therefore one of the most important kinds of reading there is. ↗

— Alan Jacobs

#age

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close. ↗

— David Petraeus

#ask #before #close #get #night

And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing. ↗

— Casper Van Dien

#i #lot #reading #ride #ride horses

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#been #books #computer #eclectic #extremely

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#i #i can #into #just #learned

I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#bits #books #come #fact #god

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me. ↗

— Rebecca Loos

#i #me #much #myself #papers

I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend? ↗

— Adam Sandler

#doing #else #feel #friends #girlfriend

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#hot tub #i #novel #oh #reading

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#listening #music #personal #reading #silence