#reading

All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job. ↗

— Harvey Milk

#being #center #country #doing #gay

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#cartoons #draw #enjoy #enjoy reading #expecting

My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert. ↗

— Rick Moody

#earliest #earliest memories #family #grandfather #had

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#including #interested #otherwise #people #poetry

Having come to the conclusion that there was so much to do that she didn’t know where to start, Mrs Fowler decided not to start at all. She went to the library, took Diary of a Nobody from the shelves and, returning to her wicker chair under the lime tree, settled down to waste what precious hours still remained of the day. ↗

— Richmal Crompton

#libraries #reading #time #to-do-list #family

It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#death #life #missing-someone #reading #death

That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music. ↗

— David Amram

#because #blend #did #him #i

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#destroyed #make #once #others #poetry

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#chivalry #end #fathers #led #man

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#book #possession #reading #substitute