Spend less time on social media and more time reading and writing.
I've read de Sade, and Anaïs Nun, and , and the . First you have to have pleasure— pain.
I remembered reading somewhere that if you smile at something, it automatically makes you happier.
But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
The zeal to pray and desire to read the scriptures can transform many lives.
I would rather be without money than to be without the book I love to read.
Daily Bible reading and mediation will deepen your understanding of life and God.
I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.
Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.
Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four.
Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
When I read both pilots for 'Breaking Bad' and the 'Michael J. Fox Show,' I turned to my husband in real life, and I'm like, 'That is an amazing script.'
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…
The carved stone sign in front read Building C. Imaginative title, Langdon thought
He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.
You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.
I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
