#reading

I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#begin #believe #between #breakfast #clock

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me. ↗

— Zane Grey

#i #inspires #me #pleasure #proofs

When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I don't want to hear an abridged version. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#back #book #comedian #going #hear

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#bishop #elizabeth #francisco #i #imprisoned

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#into #our #poems #put #reading

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#books #conversation #good #good book #listens

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#daughter #get #going #hated #i

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#another #busily #day #dictation #geography

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#good #history #makes #peace #poor