Books Quote by William Zinsser

Also bear in mind, when you're choosing your words and stringing them together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read with their…

— William Zinsser

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

— Lawrence Block

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they…

— Robert Frost

People don't always read things the way they are intended.

— Kenneth Cole

During the writing of all of my books, I've learned that, most of all, people want to know that someone is listening and -…

— Doug Stanton

The people who don't read - who are they? How do they make sense of things?

— Claire Messud

People don't really absorb everything they read or hear. They just look at it quickly, and then they choose to remember what they want…

— Sasha Grey

“Some words are invisible—namely spoken words—but that only means I read them with my ears. But people are rude, and they often speak to…

— Jarod Kintz

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

— Steven Pinker

Unlike most readers in Antiquity who read their books aloud, we have developed the convention of reading silently. This lets us read more widely…

— Jaroslav Pelikan

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own.

— Arthur Schopenhauer