#reading

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. ↗

— Peter Davison

#lot #many #more #more people #people

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. ↗

— Clarence Day

#reading #thinking #well #writing

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#literature #reading #words #literature

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#literature #reading #literature

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#reading #writing #opinions

أمقت تلك المسافات التي تفصلني عنك ، أتذمر من تلك المواقيت التي تسرقني منك .. أسخط على أعين تتأملك / على أنامل تلمسك على أنفاسك وهي تستنشقك ! على نبضاتك وهي تستشعرك ، على ثيابك وهي تعانقك ↗

— نجلاء حسن

#faith #heart #love #reading #success

I don't want little kids reading my comics. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#i #kids #little #little kids #reading

Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to stretch out its arms ... As long as I know there exists in the world someone who does tricks only for the love of the trick, as long as I know there is a woman who loves reading for reading's sake, I can convince myself that the world continues ... And every evening I, too, abandon myself to reading, like that distant unknown woman .... ↗

— Italo Calvino

#reading #dreams

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. ↗

— Jack Dee

#bible #cling #closer #commentaries #contented

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#also #bad #even #i #into