Bigs Quote by David Sedaris

When I was a kid I was a huge reader, I always had a book in my hand.

— Shannon Purser

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where…

— Norton Juster

I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

— James W. Loewen

A book consists of two layers: on top, the readable layer ... and underneath, a layer that was inaccessible. You only sense its existence…

— Marguerite Duras

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in…

— Martin Luther

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

— Isaac Asimov

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their…

— Ben Okri

“Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.”

— Horace Mann

If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.

— Scott Spencer

Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having…

— Lisa Lucas

I read a lot; I tried to understand the mechanisms that made the books I liked successful, and I went that route. So, as…

— Kevin Keck