Alison Pill Quotes

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

I'm a voracious reader. What that does is keep your mind fresh and active and hearing different voices and different styles. TV can be derivative, and if you just watch TV, you're not widening the circle.

the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon

My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.

Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he is languid, does no better than if he took a nap.

For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.

If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

There's not ever much of anything going on in my head.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

All I can say to you, if you look after your health, eat the right stuff, do enough exercise, keep your mind active, you might be around when you're 100 having this conversation with someone.

Less smoking and more reading.

I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the computer now and get a lot of benefit out of it, but I doubt that it'll work as well as reading print worked for me.

I don't drink alcohol too late in the evening; I read a good book.

I can't usually sleep if I'm listening to music. It seems to fire up my mind, and I keep engaging with it to see what it's doing.

It is amazing how many thoughts can race through your head in a minute.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going.

As a kid, I was a big reader. Books and theater were the way I understood the world, and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life. I would read all night. My mom would come into my room and tell me I had to go to sleep, so I would hide books under my bed. At first I had a tough time getting through novels, so I read plays, because a play is generally shorter and has all those tools for getting people hooked early on.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

It really don't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something.