Books Quote by James Marcus

“One of the less apparent but most profound consequences of domestic electric lighting was the encouragement of reading at home. Increased reading broadened knowledge,…

— David E. Kyvig

There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being…

— Maryanne Wolf

“We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the…

— Storm Jameson

“As Stephen Krashen and Joanne Ujiie (2005) assert, “Many people are fearful that if children engage in ‘light reading,' if they read comics and…

— Donalyn Miller

“I read with a kind of curious terror, learning that words can pin their readers to place, confer permanence on the ethereal, make the…

— Monica Wood

I wish I could have a little tape-and-loudspeaker arrangement sewn into the binding of this magazine, to be triggered off by the light reflected…

— Kingsley Amis

“We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.”

— Kevin Smokler

As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters this technologically…

— Maryanne Wolf

“Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination.”

— Richard Louv

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

— Kate DiCamillo

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles,…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“I'm equally sure, however, that I won't walk into a lamp-post while reading {literature}, like I did with {a legal thriller} all those years…

— Nick Hornby