#read

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#example #feel #for example #like #people

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#deal #fiction #great #great deal #i

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book. ↗

— Maureen Corrigan

#people #reading #alone

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed. ↗

— Mark Twain

#read

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#reading #truth #read

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#old-books #reading #read

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#help #read #will #you

I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from. ↗

— Robert Adamson

#boring #established #i #know #lot

Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that. ↗

— Robert Adamson

#certainly #early #had #i #most

On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich. ↗

— Josef Albers

#ate #berlin #cheaply #collected #first