If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.
– Henry Green
Tag: reading
Quotable 339
Honestly, everything I’ve learned about fiction, I’ve learned from writing it and reading it.
– Peter Tzinski
Quotable 320
What I love about reading certain writers is that you can tell you are in direct contact with the poetry of their mind.
– Noah J. Nelson
Quotable 288
Little has happened in my life, but I have read a great deal.
– Jorge Luis Borges
Quotable 277
Writing is where you put all your reading.
– Catherine Lacey
Quotable 255
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
– Samuel Johnson
Quotable 223
Don’t ask who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
– Giorgos Seferis
#quikfic 98
Sam turned the book’s pages with his thumb. He read on, knowing he’d never finish. The executioner was about to throw the switch.
haiku 293
reading the news –
adding more cute animals
to my Twitter feed
Quotable 114
Read, read, read. If you don’t study how the masters do things, you’ll never be a master yourself.
– Brayden Hirsch