Asks Quote by George Packer

I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

— Michael Morpurgo

Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to…

— Julia Alvarez

When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person…

— L. Ron Hubbard

I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to…

— Charles M. Schulz

I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

— Ben Okri

A lot of the times you read something and you don't realize that you are going to have to do the things that you…

— Will Ferrell

“The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done. The other day I was in a bookstore flicking through…

— Nick Hornby

“Read,read,read! It is good and promotes better academics. It helps in all sorts of ways. So read no matter what!”

— Jennifer

Something I tell my students is to read once; then if you still have problems with it, read it a second time. If you…

— Felix Gonzalez-Torres

“Pat, if there's anything you recall about your first visit with Monsignor Frank Kief, I sincerely hope it's this: there is no such thing…

— Kerry Casey

“It's not a good idea to cut back indiscriminately on what you read. The reason is that reading can save you time, because it…

— Kathryn Alesandrini

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

— Michel de Montaigne