Books Quote by Maryanne Wolf

“We know that reading changes the way we think. Among other things, it helps us formulate thoughts that are more abstract, categorical, and logical.”

— The Penguin Press

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

— John Locke

We are not only what we read. We are how we read.

— Maryanne Wolf

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.

— Louis L'Amour

In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We read because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them,in their problems.And by seeing ourselves in them, we clarify ourselves,…

— F. Sionil José

We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We read for…

— Joan Bauer

We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader…

— Maryanne Wolf

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

— Tom Bissell

Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what…

— Terry Eagleton

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way,…

— Margaret Atwood