#reading

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

#book #certain #comes #death #end

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#books #fact #in fact #longer #mastered

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#being #better #bit #changed #culture

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#autobiographical #because #false #how #know

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#because #bond #bond movies #books #grew

He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different. ↗

— Matthew Bright

#different #done #dressed #had #herman

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#beauty #become #i #magazines #reading

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#bells and whistles #book #engage #intent #interactive

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cow #grazing #mere #must #pleasure

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#approaches #avoid #avoided #country #desire