Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
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Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
My books are better thought about than read. They're insanely dull and unreadable.But they're wonderful to talk about and think about, to… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“One glance he gave, one little smile at parting—it was but for a moment; but therein I read, or thought I read,… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“What is reading, in the last analysis, but an interchange of thought between writer and reader? If the book enters the reader's… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“I'm certain indeed, I think there's no doubt of it - that reading does young people much harm. It puts things into… — Miss Grizzy Copy Share Image
Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
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The best books, they don’t talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you’d always thought about, but… — Tommy Wallach Copy Share Image
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