#reading

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job. ↗

— Lee Child

#idiot #job #keep #long #plan

Learn as much by writing as by reading. ↗

— Lord Acton

#much #reading #writing

As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision. ↗

— Chris Cooper

#decision #four #i #interested #make

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#educational #reading #education

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it. ↗

— Robert Creeley

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As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#democracy #discussion #fits #how #improvisation

I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#book #characters #fixed #get #gets

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#almost #anybody #best #books #classics

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

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

— Virginia Woolf

#reading #writing #opinions