„I can read books and news articles about people who have excelled, people who have done extremely well in their chosen field, or made a lot of money, or married well, or what have you. When some people read this stuff, they get inspired, but when I read it, it makes me feel worse. Sometimes I wish I had never learned to read.“
September 18
Quotes from Daily Negations (2007)
John S. Hall55
Poet, author, singer, lawyer 1960Ähnliche Zitate
— Oliver Goldsmith Irish physician and writer 1728 - 1774
Quelle: The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
— Dodie Smith, buch I Capture the Castle
Quelle: I Capture the Castle
— George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946
2010s, 2011, Speech at the Gerald R. Ford Foundation (2011)
— Jamaica Kincaid Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer 1949
On the lack of dialogue in her works in “An Interview with Jamaica Kincaid” https://believermag.com/an-interview-with-jamaica-kincaid/ in The Believer (2003 Jul 1)
— Leo Strauss, buch Persecution and the Art of Writing
Quelle: Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952), How to Study Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise, p. 144
„I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.“
— Kurt Cobain, buch Journals
Quelle: Journals (2002), p. 124
— Caucher Birkar Kurdish mathematician 1978
"An innovator who brings order to an infinitude of equations" Quanta Magazine (2018)
„Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.“
— Anne Brontë, buch Agnes Grey
Quelle: Agnes Grey
— Patrick Rothfuss, buch Der Name des Windes
Variante: It’s hard to be wrongfully accused, but it’s worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.
Quelle: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 8, “Thieves, Heretics, and Whores” (p. 63)
— Natalie Goldberg, buch Writing Down the Bones
Essay, "Listening". p.59
Writing Down the Bones (1986)
— Philip Larkin English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian 1922 - 1985
Quelle: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
— Scarlett Johansson American actress, model, and singer 1984
As quoted in "Wilde about the girl" in The Sydney Morning Herald (13 June 2005) http://www.smh.com.au/news/Film/Wilde-about-the-girl/2005/06/12/1118514919678.html
Kontext: I read a lot of things about myself that aren't true … I've read that I've been with people I've never met. It's nice not to have any attachment, but, likewise, it's nice to have a boyfriend. I'm open to that. But it's hard, when you're working constantly, to spend enough time with someone.
— Richard Rodríguez American journalist and essayist 1944
I think to myself, "My God, but what I told you I've never told anybody. And I'll never tell anybody again."
Violating the Boundaries: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez (1999)
