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Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Being aware is a lot more than just reading a couple of news articles and talking about it on your preferred social network.
Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.
For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.
Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works.
If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.
The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more pornography
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it.
When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.
Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.
There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.
I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done.
[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.
The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.
As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.
The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
I was in a convenience store, reading a magazine. The clerk told me, "this is not a library!" "OK! I will talk louder, then!"
One day is enough to master reading in Korean. Hangeul is a very scientific and convenient alphabet system for communication.
Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.
And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.
...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller.
I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.
I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.
Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.
There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.
This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.
When you're reading the Word of God, you need to let it soak in and let God speak to your heart and let the Holy Spirit work.
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading.
Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.
I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors.
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.
My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up.
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they think?