..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.
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Related It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it. DAVID MITCHELL You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all... STEVEN WRIGHT Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What the... LEVAR BURTON Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and p... PAUL THEROUX I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it. UMBERTO ECO If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. OSCAR WILDE Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book abou... DREW HOUSTON if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading. PAULO COELHO There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast abou... BERTRAND RUSSELL There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast abou... BERTRAND RUSSELL Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it... JACK LASENBY If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice. AMAN JASSAL When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're re... NINA JACOBSON What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading ALICE JAMES That's why I chose it, it's the first book in a series. This way they get the first book and it will... GENA PROCHASKA Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it. MOSES HADAS Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it. MOSES HADAS Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. MOSES HADAS If you don't like peas,it is probably because you have not had them fresh.It is the difference betwe... LEMONY SNICKET If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. JOHN RUSKIN Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book a... DODIE SMITH If you’re reading it in a book, folks, it ain’t self-help. It’s help. GEORGE CARLIN Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it. ALICE HOFFMAN So many people mistakenly take the Bible as a mere reading book! They read it every now and then! We... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I couldn't believe they were going to let us read something like that. At first, I didn't want to re... CANDICE WILLIAMS Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. MOSES HADAS Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful c... ROBERT WALSER Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK Loosers want it but only through the easy way. If action taking were like reading a story book, loos... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters -- because girls can read as well as boys -- r... MERVYN GRIFFITH-JONES The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replie... ANDRé MAUROIS I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and th... SOPHIE HANNAH The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an ent... CORY DOCTOROW Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it. KENNETH PACHEN King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a ... CHARLIE LOVETT If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, tho... URSULA K. LE GUIN I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth... RICK RIORDAN How to get it, I annoy you??? You are not interested??? What's the idea??? DEYTH BANGER If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I believe that the phrase ‘obligatory reading’ is a contradiction in terms; reading should not b... JORGE LUIS BORGES In my defense, I love the book in a postmodern kind of way where I've always sensed that it contains... CAROLINE KEPNES I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a... RAUL JULIA The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but,
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KRISTY SWANSON Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, com... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much ... PATRICK O'BRIAN I remember back in the 1960s - late '50s, really - reading a comic book called 'Martin Luthe... JOHN LEWIS Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actu... CHRIS MATTHEWS If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd... CORNELIA FUNKE I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple m... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are readin... ROBERTSON DAVIES It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt... STEPHEN CHBOSKY You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co... THEO ENGELA What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If it’s history, let it be history. BEN TOLOSA Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied. HODA KOTB No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – wo... C.S. LEWIS Reading a book is like meeting a wise person who has plenty of time to share his ideas with you. ILZE LITIņA I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out a... L.M. MONTGOMERY I started reading this book about two months ago, because we meet once a week so it takes a while to... GENA PROCHASKA I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything els... NEIL GAIMAN A good critic is trying to tell you what she has learned about herself from the reading of a particu... KEVIN GUILFOILE If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV ... JOHN GREEN The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are alwa... MARILYNNE ROBINSON It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the ... BEN OKRI Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when i have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remembe... ANONYMOUS While reading a book or watching television, if the words “Like” or “Share”, flashes across ... DR HITESH C SHETH But where, you might ask, is this book that the BFG wrote? It’s right here. 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NOAM CHOMSKY The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflatio... NOAM CHOMSKY For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement. NOAM CHOMSKY The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich ... NOAM CHOMSKY The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour. NOAM CHOMSKY In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students. NOAM CHOMSKY It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, w... NOAM CHOMSKY In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and kil... NOAM CHOMSKY The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial e... NOAM CHOMSKY From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies ... NOAM CHOMSKY There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which say... NOAM CHOMSKY Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how tha... NOAM CHOMSKY When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn... NOAM CHOMSKY The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg p... NOAM CHOMSKY The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the O... NOAM CHOMSKY If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers ... NOAM CHOMSKY The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but i... NOAM CHOMSKY The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-ri... NOAM CHOMSKY In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in ... NOAM CHOMSKY When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. ... NOAM CHOMSKY Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop mea... NOAM CHOMSKY My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew togethe... NOAM CHOMSKY Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and re... NOAM CHOMSKY Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use! NOAM CHOMSKY I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. NOAM CHOMSKY Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let... NOAM CHOMSKY