Books Quote by Philip Yancey

“Concentration is another name for what we have called activity in reading. The good reader reads actively, with concentration.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction… We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping…

— David Ulin

“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

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is…

— Samuel Johnson

“We can learn to pay attention, concentrate, devote ourselves to authors. We can slow down so we can hear the voice of texts, feel…

— Thomas Newkirk

My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the emergence of…

— Maryanne Wolf

“Even the earliest silent readers recognized the striking change in their consciousness that took place as they immersed themselves in the pages of a…

— Nicholas Carr

“What does it mean, this notion of...reading? ...it returns us to a reckoning with time. In the midst of a book, we have no…

— David L. Ulin

“The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their…

— Alessandra Torre

The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you…

— Tim Wynne-Jones

If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.

— Paul de Man

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