Books Quote by Maryanne Wolf Download Open image “What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.” — Maryanne Wolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Change How Read Think Why
“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 Copy Share Image
Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination. — Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Copy Share Image
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. — John Locke Copy Share Image
... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Skimming has led, I believe, to a tendency to go to the sources that seem the simplest, most reduced, most familiar, and least cognitively… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There are few more powerful mirrors of the human brain's astonishing ability to rearrange itself to learn a new intellectual function than the act… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself to learn… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
