“By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.” AbleNightReadingFeltSleepTreeSecurityMountainForestsJustifyHuckleberry Author:Kenzaburo Oe
“it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.” YearsWellsTwoAbleThreeReadingSakeThree YearsWorthwhile Book:Northanger abbey Source: Northanger abbey
“I've turned down a lot of stuff. I've read several scripts and said "That's not me, I'm not interested in doing that." It's got to be something that inspires me and captures my imagination. I want to be able to say "There's a challenge.".” WantSaidBookAbleReadingStuffImaginationChallengesInspireScriptsCaptureNot InterestedMy ImaginationBooks And ReadingTurned Down Author:Karl Urban
“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.” FirstsChildrenUseAbleFormReadingWishEducationStepsLearningCenturyPoliticianFutureSkillsGainsUltimateTwentiesInvestmentEducationalPrioritiesFirst StepsLiteracyAutonomyIlliteracyChildren LearningUnesco Author:Irina Bokova
“Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.” KnowsWayWantKindChildrenBookCharacterCareKidsAgeAbleFightingReadingAttentionKnow HowChildhoodDetailsExcitementDescriptionPlotChaptersPacksBack WhenIllustrationDickensAttention SpanChild CareCliffhangerKiplingWay Back When Author:Cressida Cowell
“I've never been able to read for anything, and every time I have, I've never gotten the part. And I don't know why that is. I just can't. Reading or auditioning for something... It's like it's this mental block in my brain, and I just can't do it. But when people ask you to do stuff without making you go through that, it's a much more pleasant experience.” PeopleKnowsAbleReadingAsksStuffBrainBlockPleasant Author:Michael Madsen
“Robert Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even - "at least not systematic"; but how systematically Frostian the worst of his later poems are! His good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his Complete Poems have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest.” AbleReadingPiecesAirWorstReaderPagesThirdsFaithfulCommentEducateSystematicFrostHaving HopeAtticsHomelyRefutationLaconic Author:Randall Jarrell
“One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.” AbleReadingEffortGreaterReaderActivityRangeProportion Author:Mortimer Adler
“In my experience with EEG Biofeedback and ADD, many people are able to improve their reading skills and decrease their need for medication. Also, EEG biofeedback has helped to decrease impulsivity and aggressiveness. It is a powerful tool, in part, because the patient becomes part of the treatment process by taking more control over his own physiological processes.” PeopleNeedsAbleReadingProcessPowerfulSkillsToolsAddPatientTreatmentMedicationDecreasePhysiologicalAggressiveness Author:Daniel Amen
“The Patriot Act allows Federal agents to look at public and university library patron circulation records, books checked out, magazines consulted, all subject to government scrutiny. There used to be a time in this country when we were worried whether our young people knew how to read. Now some in our government are more worried that government agents be able to find out what people are reading.” PeopleLooksBookCountryGovernmentAbleYoungUsedReadingRecordsSubjectsLibraryUniversityUsed To BeMagazinesAgentsWorriedPatriotScrutinyCirculationPatronPatriot Act Author:Dennis Kucinich
“The plain fact is religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key deciscions made by religious people. By irrationalists. By those who would steer the ship of state, not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken.” PeopleMadeStatesFactsAbleDiesReadingHoursReligiousMankindKeysLateShipsChickensCompassIndulgeSteersIndulge In Author:Bill Maher
“My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.” WellsAbleReadingTeacherImportanceGrandmotherMy GrandmotherStressedEnglish TeacherImportance Of Reading Author:Kevin Gates
“That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.” AbleReadingAdventureMake SenseTake MeTravelerArmchairs Author:Laura Lee
“Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. You have to be able to just hit the backhand. You can't think about all the pieces of it. You can't think about your swing. You just have to do it. Reading someone else's deconstruction of what I do, all it does is put me in my head. On nights when the show goes particularly well, I am not aware of its fluidity. A lot of nights I'm just worried that I'm not going to be as good as the script in front of me.” ThinkingWellsDoeShowsAbleBeautifulNightReadingPiecesFrontsJokesScriptsWorriedComedianEndeavorSwingsAthleticDeconstructionFluidity Author:Stephen Colbert
“There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.” AbleReadingHungerHungryHungry For Knowledge Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“I think you can perform any poem. But what I believe is that the best examples of spoken word poetry I've ever seen, are spoken word poems that, when you see them, you're aware of the fact they need to be performed. That there's something about that poem that you would not be able to understand if you were just reading it on a piece of paper.” IfsThinkingNeedsBelieveFactsAbleReadingI BelievePiecesExamplePaperSpoken Word Author:Sarah Kay
“Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more interesting than anything I might be able to come up with on a single given day.” ImportantMightAbleReadingGivenInterestingWeekNotesCome UpShowersNote Taking Author:Teju Cole
“There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at once ... It is the time when one has freshly learned to read. The Word, till then a denominating aspect of the Thing, has suddenly become detached from it and is perceived as a glittering entity, transparent and unseizable as a jellyfish, yet able to create an independent world that is both more recondite and more instantaneously convincing than the world one knew before.” WorldTwoAbleReadingMonthsPeriodsSixAspectIndependentEntitySix MonthsConvincingTransparentDetachedTwo WorldsJellyfish Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner
“Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that we would be able to hear and therefore understand better. Oh, the unending research in libraries and museums, the readings and collations of texts, the maddening desire to know the truth!” ThinkingKnowsWould BeAbleDesireReadingBornMusicCenturyResearchBlessedLibraryPityMuseumsUnending Author:Wanda Landowska
“It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming with someone right beside you.” PersonsDreamAbleReadingRoomsIntimacyBeside You Author:Laura Furman