Book Quote by Studs Terkel Download Open image “Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.” — Studs Terkel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Communication Conversation Exercise Fitness Passive Reading Reading A Book Should
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads me to… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions,” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading. — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is… — John Green Copy Share Image
The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“You turn the book over in your hands, you scan the sentences on the back of the jacket, generic phrases that don't say a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
“It was in ’35—we had this campaign to raise a million tax dollars. In the town of Phillips, one evening, during a blizzard, I… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
I never drove a car. I'm hopeless that way. I press the wrong buttons on the tape recorder. But if the person I'm interviewing… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“I’ll never forget that Depression Easter Sunday. Our son was four years old. I bought ten or fifteen cents’ worth of eggs. You didn’t… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“The total cost of the Federal Arts Project was only $23 million. Many of these paintings, sculptures and prints were given to museums, courthouses,… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us. — Studs Terkel 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
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
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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
