Composition Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down and read…

— Francine Prose

“Collect and read dictionaries. Take a couple of minutes every day to read a page. Highlight fun words you didn't know before and write…

— Douglas Wilson

Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me,…

— Alberto Manguel

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

— Bill Cosby

“Reading is a distraction from comprehension.”

— Eric Bentsen

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

— Arthur Helps

“Dictionaries are like vitamins and floss; we buy them and then never use them. Even I, an English teacher, a lover of words, have…

— Jenny Baranick

The way we see is critical to understanding how others will read our compositions.

— Mike Svob

I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read into hardly anything at…

— Michael Ondaatje

Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

— Stephen D. Krashen

“read faster and better is the understanding of a text, because the brain has less time for distractions.”

— Robert James

I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words are merely…

— Hunter S. Thompson