#reading

I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band. ↗

— Ringo Starr

#broke #finger #i #more #out

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

— Richard Steele

#exercising #mind #reading

When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics. ↗

— George Stephen

#basics #books #came #decided #did

I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I was finding the whole situation funny because I was speaking to his profile. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#daniel #dear #during #finding #fit

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#book #drama #film #film music #i

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#her #i #intention #method #might

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#comes #give #give me #good #i

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. ↗

— Amy Tan

#catcher in the rye #forbidden #great #i #influence

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#innate #learned #least #listening #looking

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#africa #always #attracted #bottom #grew