“Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.” MayBookKidsReadingGamesCan DoAttentionTechnologyMediaTelevisionTvsComputerEntertainmentNew TechnologyReading For KidsComputer GamesElectronic Media Author:Jon Scieszka
“I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.” FeelsMindReadingComputerIpadsMind Reading Author:Neil Gaiman
“Drs. Margolis and Fisher have done a great service to education, computer science, and the culture at large. Unlocking the Clubhouse should be required reading for anyone and everyone who is concerned about the decreasing rate of women studying computer science.” ShouldDoneCultureReadingStudyComputerConcernedRateDrsComputer ScienceGreat ServiceUnlocking Author:Anita Borg
“It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.” HumansStillsCharacterFeelingsFilmReadingWatchesAudienceWrittenComputerDialogueFilmmaker Author:Roger Ebert
“I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.” DoneReadingComputerMajorsNewsElectionNewspapersGoogleSiteEditsWork DoneBlockedWikipedia Author:Jimmy Wales
“I tend to believe that computers are drawing kids -- and adults -- away from reading purely because they provide an alternative, vast source of spare-time amusement and entertainment. I recently heard a frightening statistic: there are less than one million true readers in this country (those who read every day instead of one book per year on a beach). Terrifying.” YearsBelieveBookCountryKidsReadingMillionsHeardSourceReaderComputerAdultsEntertainmentDrawingAlternativesBeachFrighteningSparesAmusementSpare Time Author:Tim Lebbon
“Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate. I can't sit and read 10 pages on my computer. You'll read and then all of a sudden part of your brain is like, "What about that? ...You're not reading the whole book. You're reading fragments. Even though I think it's bad, I think it's interesting too, because that's the way my brain works.” ThinkingWayI CanBookWholeReadingInterestingBrainOne ThingInternetComputerPagesFragmentsSurfing Author:Ali Banisadr
“Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.” WayLittlesBookHardReadingComputerLazyReading BooksGoogleHard Way Author:Buzz Aldrin
“I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction I write by hand, because I'm trying to achieve a kind of thoughtless state, or an unconscious instinctive state. I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.” WayWantWritingTryingFirstsKindStatesHandsSeemsReadingInterestingFictionStepsAchieveMaterialsComputerCreatingMessUnconsciousMost InterestingNon Fiction Author:Jennifer Egan
“I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers, but they can't spell. Because spell-check won't [help] you if you don't know through from threw. I told them, "If you can read in the 21st century, you own the world." Because you learn to write from reading.” IfsKnowsWorldWritingHelpingKidsSchoolReadingCenturyCoupleComputerHigh SchoolChecksCanadaSpells21st CenturySeminarsSpell Check Author:Stephen King
“Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read a lot. They have a tendency to go toward the paranormal, romances, Twilight and stuff like that. And then it starts to taper off because other things take precedence, like the Kardashian sisters.” ThinkingKidsRomanceGirlReadingStuffParticularTvsComputerScreensTendenciesParanormalTwilightPrecedenceSmartphones Author:Stephen King
“People don't like to read text on computer screens (and reading a lot of text on iPod screens gets very tiring very soon, just about as soon as running out of battery power).” PeopleRunningReadingComputerScreensTireBatteriesIpodsComputer Screen Author:Nicholson Baker
“I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.” FeelsBookProblemTimeReadingMillionsModernWorstInternetComputerPagesSpendingReading BooksActualityModernisation Author:Aziz Ansari
“Only in Southern California do camping grounds actually have wifi, so I was sitting in my tent and I started reading it on my computer, and I couldn't put it down. More importantly, I kept getting up in the middle of the night going, "Oh, this is cool," so I pitched them an idea that they seemed to like.” IdeasNightReadingMiddleComputerSittingCaliforniaSouthernTentsMiddle Of The NightCampingSouthern California Author:Remi Aubuchon
“Computers, singing, reading, painting and gardening are my hobbies.” ReadingPaintingComputerSingingGardeningHobbies Author:Arfa Karim
“I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested in different forms of writing and other kinds of narrative art. I'm working on a screenplay. But when I was working on Eileen, I definitely felt like I was taking a piss. Like, here I am, typing on my computer, writing the "novel." It wasn't that it was insincere, but there was a kind of farcical feeling I had when I was writing.” WritingKindArtDifferentDoneFeelingsReadingNovelComputerShort StoryTypingInsincere Author:Ottessa Moshfegh
“We're into the era of desktop bureaucracy, where people sit at computers building websites and analyzing data rather than listening or reading.” PeopleReadingBuildingListeningComputerBureaucracyWebsite Author:Robert Bringhurst
“Until I reached my late teens, there was not enough money for luxuries - a holiday, a car, or a computer. I learned how to program a computer, in fact, by reading a book. I used to write down programs in a notebook and a few years later when we were able to buy a computer, I typed in my programs to see if they worked. They did. I was lucky.” WritingBookEnoughReadingCarLuckyComputerProgramHolidayNotebook Author:Zia Haider Rahman
“I read reviews of critics I respect and feel I can learn something from. Right now there are a lot of bottom-feeder critics who just have access to a computer and don't necessarily have an academic or cinema background that I can detect, so I tend to ignore that and stay with the same top-tier critics that I've come to respect. I like reading a good review - it doesn't have to be favorable, but a well-thought-out one - because I very much appreciate the relationship of directors and critics.” ReadingComputerAppreciateCriticsAcademic Author:Alexander Payne
“A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.” BookReadingWonderfulBedComputerLibraryScreensContrastLiteracyWonderful ThingsLibrarianBook ReadingReading And LiteracyComputer Screen Author:Daniel J. Boorstin
“Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.” ReadingComputerResearchLibraryProgrammingPacksRatsLiteracyLibraries Books And ReadingLibraries And ReadingSchool LibraryLibrary Research Author:Roger Ebert
“I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.” WayWantWritingLongRealLawSufferingOrderReadingWaitingComputerCarefulMilesNakedCoveredBe CarefulBeing RealPausesRipEnvelopesFax Author:Siri Hustvedt
“The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.” WantMeanBookEnoughUseReadingEasyRealizingPaperComputerNewsScreensSubstitutesGood NewsPrintedEnticementPrinted Books Author:Cory Doctorow
“Nick sat beside Simon, who was at his computer. Marcus stood at attention beside the food. Hale had his feet on the table, reading the morning paper. And someone had given the Bagshaws a gun. 'Pull!' Hamish yelled, and Angus pulled a cord and sent a skeet flying across the deep blue water. A split second later, a loud crack was reverberating across the deck. Kat jumped. Hale sighed. The shot went far wide, and Marcus never moved a muscle.” ReadingGivenWaterAttentionMorningFeetPaperComputerGunShotsBlueTablesMovedWideFlyingLoudSatMusclesCracksSplitsDeckCordsHaleBlue Water Author:Ally Carter
“Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer.” PlayReadingComputerBirdAngryLibraryAngry Birds Book:Tempting the Player Source: Tempting the Player
“The kind of teacher who is afraid that they are going to be replaced by a computer should be.” ShouldKindReadingLearningTeacherComputerReplacedLiteracy Author:Michael Fullan