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The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.


Maynard Ferguson


#great #how #improviser #jazz #know

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.


Lawrence Ferlinghetti


#back #books #bookstore #bookstores #chain

As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.


Michael Chabon


#clicked #could #exciting #i #new

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.


Lawrence Ferlinghetti


#book #brooks #century #early #i

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.


Lawrence Ferlinghetti


#easier #image #much #read #something

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.


Michael Chabon


#back #books #cholera #fire #going

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.


Henry Chadwick


#ball #base #body #eye #faculties

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.


Jack L. Chalker


#books #first #money #novels #off

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.


Ray Charles


#already #arrived #blood #born #food

I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.


Tina Fey


#big #even #family #go #grew