Activity Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

The experience of reading is very interesting because you put yourself in the character's shoes and everything they're discovering, you marry the experience.

— Ashley Zukerman

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do…

— Nathalie Sarraute

Also bear in mind, when you're choosing your words and stringing them together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read with their…

— William Zinsser

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their…

— Ben Okri

There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.

— David Bezmozgis

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

— James Russell Lowell

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

— John Green

“In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can't lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks or fire…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page…

— Katherine Paterson

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count…

— Bennett Cerf

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

From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not simply to…

— Jacqueline Woodson