#reading

It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#bed #code #cutting #dinner #eat

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#began #book #brilliant #change #daisy

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#courage #got #had #i #journals

If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#brain #circuit #dyslexic #eye #eyes

In two of your poems you called that central Passage of womanhood a wound, Instead of a curtain guarding a silken Trail of sighs. How many men, Upon regarding such beauty, helplessly Touching it, recklessly needing To enter its warmth again and again, Have assumed it embodies their own ache Of absence, the personal Gash that has punished their lives. So endowed of anatomy, any woman Who has been loved Knows that her tenderest blush Of tissue is a luxe burden of have. Although it bleeds, this is only to cleanse, To prepare yet another nesting for love. It is not a wound, friend. It is a home for you. It is a way into the world. ↗

— Michele Wolf

#beauty

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#greatest #half #library #make #man

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#book #boring #by the time #developing #finished

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#big thing #books #newspapers #out #reading

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#called #does #los #los angeles #outfit

I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to. ↗

— Norah Jones

#because #forget #go #i #loved