Ability Quote by Nicholas G. Carr

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

— John Keats

As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

— Karin Slaughter

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand…

— John Locke

What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.

— Maryanne Wolf

I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though…

— Laurie Foos

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's…

— Anna Quindlen

I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading. And those…

— Kameron Hurley

Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means by which…

— David Simon

Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.

— John Green

The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.

— Erin Morgenstern

One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.

— Joy Williams

Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to find an…

— Amalia Kahana-Carmon