Attention Quote by Ernest Dimnet

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.

— Ernest Dimnet

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

When we read about reading, we get to share an experience that is usually kept private. Incisive descriptions of reading help us to understand…

— Joanna Scott

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

— Bill Cosby

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of…

— Martin Amis

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no…

— Ezra Pound

Some people read. I like to put words together.

— Iman Shumpert

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words…

— Anonymous

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

— Joyce Carol Oates

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking…

— Rick Yancey

“To enjoy and learn from what you read you must understand the meanings of the words a writer uses. You do yourself a grave…

— Charles Harrington Elster

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every…

— Jonathan Franzen