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“[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.”

May Reading Letters Dear Formulas Controversial

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.”

Thinking May Mean Form Reading Brain Technology Possibility Communication Habit Structure Available Online Communication Technology

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.”

Wells May Character Reading Fiction Study Products Profit Good Work Relish

Author:Richard Whately

“Although I don't know Paul McCartney, a mutual friend told me that Paul was reading my book, This Is Your Brain on Music, and stopped after chapter two. McCartney said he was concerned that if he learned more about how he does what he does (as far as composing music), he may not be able to do it anymore!”

Ifs Knows May Doe Said Two Book Able Reading Brain Concerned Mutual Chapters Composing Composing Music

Author:Daniel Levitin

“The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness.”

Men May Book Hands Reading Forget Pleasure Tree He Man Duty Pure Infinite Riches Luxury Friendly Lasting Shade Torment Bosoms Grandeur Lively Compatible

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.”

Writing May Certain Reading Pleasure Novel Pure Difficulty

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.”

Mind Humans May Reading Pleasure Effort Novel Worst Effects Habit Mere Curiosity Excitement Human Mind Receiving Sensibility Habitual Exertion

Book:The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.”

Ifs Knows Should Humans May Reading Force Wish Study Genius Intelligence Commentators Insignificance

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.”

Way May Matter Reading Novel Determine Enormous Intimate

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real, in the sense of being real symbols.”

Thinking Writing May Real Courses Reading Symbols Fantastic Being Real

Book:Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

Source: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

“In all things that you find in the Holy Scriptures, seek out the purpose of the words, that you may enter into the depth of the thoughts of the saints and understand them with greater exactness. Do not approach the reading of the Divine Scriptures without prayer and asking the help of God. Consider prayer to be the key to the true understanding of that which is said in the Holy Scriptures.”

“Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.”

Men May Littles Reading Understanding Knowing Judging Judgement

Author:John Locke

“It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us - to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.”

Giving Should Years May Made Book Would Be Reading Loses Ten Made It Shelves Extensions

Author:Pam Brown

“It's very intuitive, the way that I approach my work. I only buy something that has a pulse. I may not know how I'm going to use it, but I know it has a pulse and it has multiple readings - if I shift it one way or another, it can be read this way or it can be read that way, but both readings are critical and very much ground the work.”

Ifs Knows Way May Use Reading Know How Approach Critical One Way Multiple Intuitive Pulse

Author:Nick Cave

“I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life.”

May Together Reading Sentences Miserable Length Gathering Musings Pruning Miserable Life

Author:Elizabeth I

“Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be sauce, rather than food for you, engross all your application. Beware of a boundless and sickly appetite for the reading of poems which the nation now swarms withal; and let not the Circaen cup intoxicate you. But especially preserve the chastity of your soul from the dangers you may incur, by a conversation with muses no better than harlots.”

Should May Soul Reading Nations Danger Conversation Pages Passionate Cups Your Soul Preserves Application Appetite Muse Boundless Sauce Chastity Swarms Harlots

Author:Cotton Mather

“Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass good. I consider that portion of my life which has been spent in keeping journals and writing history to have been very profitably spent. - "If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.”

Ifs Should Writing May Children Has Beens Reading Views Deals Pay Trouble Our Children Privilege Motive Portions Journal Time Spent Keeping A Journal Writing History

Author:Wilford Woodruff

“Extrinsic reading rewards may not be necessary and may backfire.”

May Reading Rewards Backfire

Author:Stephen D. Krashen

“Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them wait for the one unit a year in which they are allowed to choose their own books and become readers, they may never read at all. To keep our students reading, we have to let them.”

Ifs Giving Years May Book Reading Waiting Students Reader Encouragement Units Enthusiastic

Book:The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

Source: The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

“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 eyes. But in fact they hear what they are reading far more than you realize.”

Mind May Facts Seems Eye Together Reading Sound Realizing Bears Reader Absurd

Book:On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction

Source: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction

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