You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book..
The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in….
One of the most useful parts of my education as a writer was the practice of reading a writer straight through - every book the writer published, in ….
As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrap….
With the myriad of new Bible translations on the market today, few stand out. The ESV is one of the few, and surpasses the others in its simple yet e….
One should learn from a book. Books have a lot to teach us. They have a lot of empathy to impart to us, but they should also be fun. This stuff is fu….
The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in r….
My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window..
The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning….
One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!.
I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons a….
Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry ins….
The brain has an attentional mode called the "mind wandering mode" that was only recently identified. This is when thoughts move seamlessly from one ….
I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading..
I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now or a hundred years from no….
I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I write in before bed. But the last thing I ….
By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves..
Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime..
I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they think?.
The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it..
But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be ….