There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I love being home, reading the paper in the morning and having a cup of coffee, doing laundry, going grocery shopping and… — Tristan Prettyman Copy Share Image
“principles of reading: reduce articles to their essence, read and write in the same day, subscribe to journals, and learn to skim.” — Wendy Laura Belcher Copy Share Image
When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next.… — Kurt Russell Copy Share Image
When a movie based on a book comes out, people always say that the book is always better than the movie. So… — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“I have not read most of the big 19th — century novels that people consider “essential,” nor most of the 20th-century ones… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles.… — James Paul Gee Copy Share Image
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The newspaper articles that Joe had read about the upcoming Senate investigation into comic books always cited "escapism" among the litany of… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I was in a job interview and I opened a book and started reading. Then I said to the guy 'Let me… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“We find ways to comfort one another and to comfort ourselves. And comfort eases, but it does not erase. Until then, we… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
It has become cliché to say I laughed until I cried, but when I'm done reading one of [Kupperman's] underground comics my… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I… — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
People who are reading my books, or who are thinking about it, have some general idea about the concept of strategy. They're… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me),… — Mary Engelbreit Copy Share Image
For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
“You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—in particular, what he likes and what he disdains—as from what… — Rodney Ulyate Copy Share Image
Sundays are a good day to look at the limitless possibilities of the week ahead. The key is to prolong that feeling… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
Reading about feminism when I was a teenager and seeing it as a young woman, I realized that feminism really hadn't dealt… — Lorna Simpson Copy Share Image
I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: My religion is loving-kindness. I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past,… — Elizabeth Kim Copy Share Image
Any person that you would want to watch your movie or see your show or read your book, there's a million other… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
I was playing sports all the time, growing up. And then, somewhere around 10th or 11th grade, I kind of lost interest… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image
I don't live in that world where I'm on social media, I don't got social media. Or I'm reading articles [about my… — Derrick Rose Copy Share Image
Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image