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Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big difference. Hollywood and the NBA or NFL could step in, too. In England they have an event called Book Day, where every child receives a pound to use at any bookstore.

I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was nothing to do. So I read like crazy, serious stuff, all the classics.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.

The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.

I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

I didn't want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the book at the most interesting part. He said, “What happened then, daddy?” I said, “If you learn to read, you can find out. I'm too tired to read. I'll read to you tomorrow.” So, he had a need to want to learn how to read. Don't teach children how to read. Don't teach them mathematics. Give them a reason to want it. In school, they're working ass-backwards.

If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose control. So, the best idea is to separate people if you wish to maintain a monetary system. It's called divide and conquer. By dividing people, they're not a threat, you can control them.

Learning to be flexible in values takes a very long time...Of course I felt a little uncomfortable during questioning the concept of God, but then reading about the history and evolution of Gods. There were many different Gods: the God of war, the God of peace, the God of love, which was more like the people that invented them. They behaved, they got angry, they made sacrifices, they created floods when they didn't like the way things are going. This didn't come through as superior intelligence.

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry,_x000D_ wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only_x000D_ to manslaughter and bawdry.

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.

Edward Conard provides a provocative interpretation of the causes of the global financial crisis and the policies needed to return to rapid growth. Whether you agree or not, this analysis is well worth reading.

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to record entire versions of the book. As the author, I'm impressed with Audible's commitment to my narrative -- and I'm geeking out that both Wil and Amber are reading my book. This is fantastic.

Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.

Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world, that is having the experience of changing the world and touching the world.