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Reading Quotes
"The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points."
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"I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book."
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"I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership."
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"The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring."
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"A finished product is one that has already seen its better days."
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"These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything."
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"If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe."
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"When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."
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"I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury."
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"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."
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"It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)."
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"Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep."
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"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
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"Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading."
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"I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready."
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"Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish."
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"I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know."
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"In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!"
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"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."
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"One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since."
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"The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable."
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"I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it."
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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."
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"I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century."
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"I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself."
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"I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child."
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"I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed."
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"When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't."
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"The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat."
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"Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it."
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"Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best."
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"It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something."
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"I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers."
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"Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start."
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"Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers."
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"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it."
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"When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."
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