Reads Quotes (page 83)

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• consider
• religious
• she

Here is the woman who had seriously considered taking LSD under the supervision of a medical doctor so she could have "a mind-altering experience," who had read herself straight out of Mormonism and into Eastern religious thought--but refused to replace one dogma with another. Terry Tempest Williams

• hope
• sleep
• heart

She started writing notes and keeping them under her pillow, and then she started writing them on her pillowcase, hoping they would help her have better dreams. And if she couldn’t sleep, she could just read them and be reminded of something so stunningly beautiful that her heart would swell and her bones would sigh and for just a second, the world would not seem like it was going to crush her. Emily Bronte

• reading
• writing
• hard

Hard writing makes easy reading" - Crossing to safety. Wallace Stegner

• reading
• thinking
• before

Think before you speak. Read before you think. Fran Lebowitz

• reading
• time
• forever

I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway. Mark Twain

• book
• reading
• bed

This book is to be read in bed. Dr. Seuss

• reading
• house
• sky

They read the long afternoon through, while the cold November rain fell from the sky upon the quiet house. Ray Bradbury

• reading
• comforting
• walking

Writer advice..Write. Finish things. Go for walks. Read a lot & outside your comfort zone. Stay interested. Daydream. Write Neil Gaiman

• greatness
• knowledge
• reading

Oh! certainly," cried his faithful assistant, "no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved."All this she must possess," added Darcy, "and... Jane Austen

• friends
• new friends
• friend

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend. Robert Louis Stevenson

• alone
• reading
• being alone

But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. Jonathan Franzen

• movie
• reading
• imagination

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel? Wendell Berry

• about me
• saying
• personality

You don’t know anything, apart from what you read in the paper.” “You seem to be the only person in the world that the papers get bang to rights. If they say you’ve slept with a fifteen-year-old, you have. If they say you’ve fallen over drunk in the street, you have. They don’t need to invent stuff for you.” This was actually quite an acute observation. She was right: not once have I been the victim of misrepresentation or distortion. If you think about it, that was one of the most... Nick Hornby

• world
• morning
• look

On this particular autumn night, only the prospect of another solitary evening lies before her. She will fry her chop and read herself to sleep, no doubt with a tale of wizardry and romance. Then, in dreams that strike even her as trite, Miss Dark will go adventuring in chain mail and silk. Tomorrow morning she will wake up alone, and do it all again. Poor Judy Dark! Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big... Michael Chabon

• reading
• sleep
• going home

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! Don’t sleep with people who don’t read! John Waters