Books Quote by Maureen McLaughlin

“Critical Literacy Critical literacy is not a teaching method but a way of thinking and a way of being that challenges texts and life…

— Maureen McLaughlin

“Literacy isn't just about reading, writing, and comprehension. It's about culture, professionalism, and social outlook.”

— Taylor Ellwood

I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.

— Ma Jian

It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

— Edward Abbey

If you spend your life with academics, when you step outside, you realise there is this huge general readership that is almost impossible to…

— Tom Paulin

“He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

“Ask questions while you read—questions that you yourself must try to answer in the course of reading.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

“Critically examining a question isn’t something that comes to us innately; you have to learn how to do it.”

— Noah Lugeons

“Because reading is a selfish activity, writing must be unselfish, a gift to the reader.”

— Oscar Patton

“The same skills needed for writing are needed or reading. Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and readers fail…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

“It would be better to try to awake the reader’s critical instincts than to appeal to his laziness.”

— Albert Camus

“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.”

— John P. Marquand