#reading

This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read. ↗

— John Sladek

#food #hate #i #junk #junk food

If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#bodies #chemicals #ever #had #industrial

That life can be a rich place, comprised of the highbrow and the lowdown, the casual and the ambitious, private reading and public sharing. As a parent in that landscape, you'll need to be sometimes traveling companion, sometimes guides, sometimes off in your own part of the forest. A relationship between readers is complicated and cannot be reduced to such "strategies" as mandatory reading aloud, a commendable family activity whose pleasure has been codified into virtue, transforming the nightly bedtime story into a harbinger of everybody's favorite thing: homework. ↗

— Roger Sutton

#family

I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#chapters #cover #did #discredit #got

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

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

Let All Your Life’s Experiences Lead To More Writing & Encourage More Reading..! ↗

— Sujit Lalwani

#inspirational-quotes #life #reading #success #writing

When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#career #done #good #good time #had

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child. ↗

— Goh Chok Tong

#child #enjoyed #i #reading #wanted