The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
J.K. RowlingTags: reading books learning writing vocabulary
Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.And so, there in the penitentiary, Juan's education began. He didn't want to be a puto weakling, so he worked hard at learning to read. His earthly body was locked up, but his mind was set free as a young eagle soaring through the heavens.
Victor VillaseñorTags: inspirational reading education freedom reading-motivation
In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.
Robert HenriTags: art reading books the-art-spirit
What happened to the classics?" you may ask. "Don't you believe in reading great literature to children?"
Nothing happened to the classics-but something happened to children: their imaginations went to sleep in front of the television set twenty-five years ago. Reading a classic to a child whose imagination is in a state of retarded development will not foster a love of literature in that child.
Tags: reading classics literacy-children read-aloud
That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.
Stephen KingI realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.
Donalyn MillerTags: reading literacy teaching
If you wish to draw profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never with the design of gaining a reputation for learning.
Thomas a KempisTags: reading scripture motivations
Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!
Mitch HedbergTags: reading books children literacy children-s-books
Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.
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