“I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.” BigsCultureReadingNovelCrimeYouthIndustryReaderBecomingLateInnocentTransitionFascinatedKeithReversalYouth Culture Author:Jo Nesbo
“Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.” MindTodayReadingChallengesBrainLeaderYouthTelevisionTomorrowExerciseActiveScreensPassiveMesmerizedTelevision WatchingToday's Youth Author:Richard M. Nixon
“If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsTryingMindWould BeAmericaYoungReadingOpportunityCan DoToo MuchYouthFineHabitAll ThingsConstantRewardsUnafraidGood ReadingThinking Of OthersFine Words Author:Charles William Eliot
“I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing research, I would write books that I would have liked to have read as a child. So whenever I write, I imagine myself, as a youth, reading my books, being thrilled by the incredible advances being made in physics and science.” WritingChildrenMadeBookReadingImagineYouthGrewGrew UpResearchIncrediblesPhysicsPhysicistTheoretical Author:Michio Kaku
“In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature; looking at youth who were getting more and more attracted to sitcoms - hard, adventure films and said, our children are no longer reading, or else they're reading cartoons.” ChildrenFilmReadingLiteratureYouthAdventureOur ChildrenCartoonSitcomLament Author:Wole Soyinka
“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.” IfsWorldInspirationalGivingTryingLooksPersonsBookTodayYoungReadingLiteratureYouthGainsThought ProvokingReading BooksImpressedLiteracyWriters Reading Author:Maya Angelou
“Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.” ThinkingGivingEndsAgeNightReadingUnderstandingHoursWatchesConditionsHavensYouthOffersAddAssumingEntertainmentPursuitOld AgeEmploymentAll TimeEaseCharmCompanionSoleConsolationEnlighteningStimulusUnderstanding OthersDiversion Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the movies at the Michigan theater relentlessly American and mindless. These were opinions I came to later, after I became a denizen of a City, an expatriate anxious to distance herself from the bumpkin ways of her youth. I am suddenly consumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.” ThinkingWayLittlesHomeSchoolGirlReadingSecretCitiesOpinionFieldsYouthSickTheaterDistanceWinterLibraryNostalgiaGreekAnxiousConsumedSplendorMichiganMindlessCuisineNancyBlandFauxWinter DaysExpatriatesNancy DrewCough DropsHome Sick Author:Audrey Niffenegger
“Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.” IfsHas BeensBigsReadingActorsNamesYouthSevenScreensBig Screen Book:Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero Source: Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero
“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality and permanence be damned. Sure I want them, but they are nonexistent, and won't matter when I rot underground. All I want to say is: I made the best of a mediocre job. It was a good fight while it lasted. And so life goes.” ThinkingWantLongMadeMatterEnoughAgeJobsFightingReadingYouthLifetimeOld AgeImmortalityMediocrePermanenceGood Fight Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath