Books Quote by Alberto Manguel

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch…

— John Steinbeck

If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their…

— David Elkind

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind…

— Ben Okri

Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

— Eric Thomas

“Reading is action. Even though it is often done quietly and alone, reading is a profoundly social activity, and a vigorous and demanding one.…

— J. Paul Hunter

“Learning to read – really read, that is, to spend hours alone lost in a book – requires example and solitude, and is best…

— Andrew Cook

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.

— Anonymous

Let us begin by clearing up the old confusion between theman who loves learning and the man who loves reading, and point out that…

— Virginia Woolf

Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated,…

— Thomas S. Monson

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

— Barack Obama

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the…

— John Steinbeck

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means…

— Alexander Theroux