These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and literacy so that we will purchase its programs and materials.
Mike SchmokerTags: reading books school read literacy waste learn textbooks
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that I flew into a rage and hurled it at the wall after reading the first few sentences. I was spoilt for any other form of literature, and the mental torment I endured was comparable to the agony of unrequited love compounded by the withdrawal symptoms associated with a severe addiction.
Walter MoersTags: reading literature
One reads so as not to believe everything one reads.
Aaron HaspelAn attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.
Hervé Le TellierTags: reading life-lessons enough-about-love
Who wants a library full of books you've already read?
Harlan EllisonAnd the non-reading of books, you will object, should be characteristic of all collectors? This is news to me, you may say. It is not news at all. experts will bear me out when I say that it is the oldest thing in the world. Suffice it to quote the answer which Anatole France gave to a philistine who admired his library and then finished with the standard question, “And you have read all these books, Monsieur France?” “Not one-tenth of them. I don’t suppose you use your Sevres china every day?
Walter BenjaminRead to succeed
Habeeb AkandeEveryone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.
Roy Peter ClarkTags: reading education writing
I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find his epics on the shelf of such an unimaginable being as myself, in the middle of an unrumored continent. I love the large minority of the writers on my shelves who have struggled with words and thoughts and, by my lights, have lost the struggle. All together they are my community, the creators of the very idea of books, poetry, and extended narratives, and of the amazing human conversation that has taken place across the millennia, through weal and woe, over the heads of interest and utility.
Marilynne RobinsonTags: words reading books poetry writers literature
ألا تعتقد أن كل انسان يغير نظرته بوعي أو بدون وعي بعد انتهائه من قراءة كتاب
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