Reading Quotes - Page 39

• White people on Facebook, I discovered by reading people's messages and walls, tended to lurk and judge.

  Katherine Losse

  Wall, White, People

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• I read, I think, I play, I work. And all that thinkingand playing and reading comes into my art. I couldn't really sithere and delineate for you what the thought process is. I can perhapssay that literature, psychoanalysis and theater have been very valuableexperiences that have informed and nourished me along the way.

  Harvey Keitel

  Art, Thinking, Play

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• I wanted to be a poet. I had a really romantic idea about what that would mean. My parents knew some poets, and I liked how they dressed and acted, but I didn't really acknowledge that I only liked reading some bits of poetry while I was peeing or something.

  Lena Dunham

  Mean, Ideas, Parent

  Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1, 2012.

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• I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch.

  James A. Baldwin

  Book, Hands, Two

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• I can't be reading novels when I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. The hardest thing to do is keep the tone and your attitude over the course of a year or however long it takes.But when I'm writing short stories, which I will be doing shortly, I can read anything I like.

  T.C. Boyle

  Attitude, Writing, Voice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Pleasure, Poor, Reader

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• 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.

  Donalyn Miller

  Encouragement, Book, Years

  Donalyn Miller (2010). “The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child”, p.177, John Wiley & Sons

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• Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Writing, Vocabulary, Style

  Stephen D. Krashen (2004). “The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research”, Libraries Unltd Incorporated

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• Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Teaching, Vocabulary, Lists

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• Malcolm X educated himself in prison by reading.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Prison, Educated

  Stephen D. Krashen (2004). “The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research, 2nd Edition: Insights from the Research”, p.28, ABC-CLIO

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• If you look back in history, as the barbarians were invading the gates of Rome, people were consulting fortunetellers and worrying about the end of the world and all sorts of other apocalyptic notions. When the tsars were finally overthrown, they were all reading tarot cards even as the revolutionaries were banging at the gates.

  Matt Taibbi

  Rome, People, Worry

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2008.

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• Children read more when they see other people reading.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Children, People

  Stephen D. Krashen (2004). “The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research, 2nd Edition: Insights from the Research”, p.78, ABC-CLIO

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• Young people's reading choices are influenced by their peers.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  People, Choices, Peers

  Stephen D. Krashen (2004). “The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research, 2nd Edition: Insights from the Research”, p.83, ABC-CLIO

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• Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Children, Chance, Habit

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• People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  People, Chance, Language

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• It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank. The only reason I am here and not in prison is because of that woman. I was a loser, but she showed me the power of reading.

  Gary Paulsen

  Water, Dying, Buckets

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• A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.

  Rudolf Flesch

  Errors, People, Done

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• It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.

  Douglas Crockford

  Writing, Style, Matter

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.95, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Wish, Action, Live Love

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being. I remember reading some Adrienne Rich quote where she talks about how important it was just to watch bubbles rise in a glass.

  Karen Russell

  Dream, Glasses, People

  "Karen Russell’s Fantastical World". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.

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• I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time this information would come up.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Latin, Book, America

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When you are reading something and you have people pop up in your head you are just sort of stuck with it.

  Anne Fletcher

  People, Pops, Stuck

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.

  Aurora Rose Reynolds

  Stupid, Book, Fire

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• 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.

  Elizabeth I

  Together, Gathering, Pruning

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• With those organizations, it's like time travel. I just reach back and find little kids who were like me. Maybe the circumstances vary, but the formula is the same. They're having problems reading, having problems grasping some of the things that are being taught to them.

  Malik Yusef

  Kids, Organization, Littles

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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