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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading Quotes
On books, ideas, and a lifelong reading habit.
This collection includes a musician's case for teaching reading and dictation before an instrument, alongside a simple, almost self-deprecating admission of feeling born reading. See Book quotes for more.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my younger son was 13 years old, he asked me to read 'Swallows and Amazons' to him while he made models. He liked it so much that I ended up reading all thirteen of Ransome's books, including the ones that I missed out on. This led my son to 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe' and 'Coral Island.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vacation reading is not a new concept. Ever since the 19th century, when novels were considered relatively sinful indulgences, leisure and fiction-reading have been closely associated.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before my teens, my contemporaries were reading Tolkien and were absorbed by his works, but try as I might, I could not be drawn in, perhaps as something in me resists the epic, medieval-feeling fantasy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020