#reading

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. ↗

— Henry Miller

#bludgeon #digests #facts #magazines #newspapers

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots. ↗

— Henry Miller

#black #curse #disaster #i #i see

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

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#continually #day #else #enough #every

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#history #human #human race #more #more people

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#generally #hack #i #like #lips

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#i #i am #kind #other #people

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#kind #other #people #reading #think

It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part. ↗

— David Thewlis

#books #first #flat #good #good idea

As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook. ↗

— Gary Ross

#bed #edge #goes #going #kid