Reading Quotes - Page 37

• I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer-I just was one.

  Ann Hood

  Growing Up, Book, Writing

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• Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass good. I consider that portion of my life which has been spent in keeping journals and writing history to have been very profitably spent. - "If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Children, Writing, Views

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• I read, I think, I play, I work. And all that thinkingand playing and reading comes into my art. I couldn't really sithere and delineate for you what the thought process is. I can perhapssay that literature, psychoanalysis and theater have been very valuableexperiences that have informed and nourished me along the way.

  Harvey Keitel

  Art, Thinking, Play

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• By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking.

  William Safire

  Writing, Thinking, Elevating

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• I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch.

  James A. Baldwin

  Book, Hands, Two

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• Reading aloud is the best advertisement because it works. It allows a child to sample the delights of reading and conditions him to believe that reading is a pleasureful experience, not a painful or boring one.

  Jim Trelease

  Children, Believe, Delight

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• Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading a book - the pleasure it bring us, something too many boil down to a dirty word: FUN.

  Jim Trelease

  Fun, Dirty, Book

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• Outstanding high school writers reported extensive summer reading

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Summer, School, Outstanding

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• Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Pleasure, Poor, Reader

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• Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Writing, Vocabulary, Style

  Stephen D. Krashen (2004). “The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research”, Libraries Unltd Incorporated

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• Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Teaching, Vocabulary, Lists

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• Malcolm X educated himself in prison by reading.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Prison, Educated

  Stephen D. Krashen (2004). “The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research, 2nd Edition: Insights from the Research”, p.28, ABC-CLIO

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• Access to a school library results in more reading.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  School, Library, Results

  Stephen D. Krashen (2004). “The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research, 2nd Edition: Insights from the Research”, p.56, ABC-CLIO

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• However, a rich print environment helps only when more reading is done.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Done, Helping, Environment

  Stephen D. Krashen (2004). “The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research, 2nd Edition: Insights from the Research”, p.60, ABC-CLIO

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• Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Book, Library, Source

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• Magazine reading appears to promote more reading.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Magazines

  Stephen D. Krashen (2004). “The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research, 2nd Edition: Insights from the Research”, p.103, ABC-CLIO

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• Extrinsic reading rewards may not be necessary and may backfire.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  May, Rewards, Backfire

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• Children read more when they see other people reading.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Children, People

  Stephen D. Krashen (2004). “The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research, 2nd Edition: Insights from the Research”, p.78, ABC-CLIO

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• Young people's reading choices are influenced by their peers.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  People, Choices, Peers

  Stephen D. Krashen (2004). “The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research, 2nd Edition: Insights from the Research”, p.83, ABC-CLIO

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• Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Light, Serious, Used

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• Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Children, Chance, Habit

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• People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  People, Chance, Language

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• I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six.

  Simon Newcomb

  Aunt, Years, Class

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• It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank. The only reason I am here and not in prison is because of that woman. I was a loser, but she showed me the power of reading.

  Gary Paulsen

  Water, Dying, Buckets

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• A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.

  Rudolf Flesch

  Errors, People, Done

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