Books Quote by Carmen Rodrigues

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

— Rumer Godden

“The opportunity to develop competencies may be handed to us in the form of a crisis, as was the case with Brooksley Born, the…

— Whitney Johnson

After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never…

— Maryanne Wolf

“We were never born to read. Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this invention, we rearranged the very…

— Grabe

We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader…

— Maryanne Wolf

And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

— Walter Scott

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

— Christopher K. Krebs

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

— Andrew Lang

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

— Karen Thompson Walker

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

— Lydia Lunch

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

— Aesop Rock

I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer