Books Quote by Edith Wharton

In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.

— Joseph Joubert

Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion…

— John Taylor Gatto

The best books, they don’t talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you’d always thought about, but you didn’t…

— Tommy Wallach

“Ah, he thought, for one who cannot read--or think--the Image, the physical form of Love!”

— Willa Cather

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

— Dick Cavett

Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we connect thought…

— Maryanne Wolf

“I'm certain indeed, I think there's no doubt of it - that reading does young people much harm. It puts things into their heads…

— Miss Grizzy

My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the emergence of…

— Maryanne Wolf

“One glance he gave, one little smile at parting—it was but for a moment; but therein I read, or thought I read, a meaning…

— Anne Brontë

“There’s a poem by Adrienne Rich I first read twenty years ago called “Splittings” that I thought of when I read your letter. The…

— Cheryl Strayed

Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything.

— Zadie Smith

Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to…

— Nancy Pearl