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Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development
Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.
When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.
In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.
I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.
I'm reading and trying to find a television show that I really like, so I can start really working again and gain some momentum.
A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work.
I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I don't have a connect with it.
Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on the subject.
I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book.
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.
A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance.
Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting residue.
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.
I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose.
In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.
I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.
That is the mystery: Reading Henry James can yield prose that is contrary to James, yet inspired by him. Who can understand this?
No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.
Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they wish.
W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.
Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her.
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend a day.
The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music.
I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop. And I'd be reading naked.
I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.
A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.
I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.
When I was young, I didn't like to read. I would have much rather been outside doing something than been inside reading about it.
A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.
The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.
In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.
I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.
I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story
I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.
My father was a Social Gospel, far-left liberal, and to some degree a mystic. But we did not have Bible readings; we had prayers.
When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've messed up.
Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each of us.
I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever.
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
I love to read. I don't get enough time to read. I love reading the Internet. I love reading magazines. I love going on the 'net.
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.