Critical analysis Quote by Maryanne Wolf

Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we connect thought…

— Maryanne Wolf

“Make your own methods of study, read development books, create a plan, be committed, put passion on it, and act for your goal.”

— Alan Maiccon

The questions that our society must ask revolve around whether the time-consuming demands of the deep-reading processes will be lost in a culture whose…

— Maryanne Wolf

The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow…

— Maryanne Wolf

We have to move into the 21st century, but we should do so with great care to build a 'bi-literate' brain that has the…

— Maryanne Wolf

I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is much better…

— Maryanne Wolf

“In The Gutenberg Elegies, Sven Birkerts laments the loss of “deep reading,” which requires intense concentration, a conscious lowering of the gates of perception,…

— Philip Yancey

“Reading a book was a meditative act, but it didn’t involve a clearing of the mind. It involved a filling, or replenishing, of the…

— Nicholas Carr

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves…

— Harold Bloom

Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I…

— Sven Birkerts

Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything.

— Zadie Smith

Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to…

— Nancy Pearl