Douglas Wilson Quotes

I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.

Talk in terms of the other person's interests.

What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.

One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.

If I try to cover too much ground, you start to get watered down and less interesting.

You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.

I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start.

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.

I always saw my peers finding some cool passion, but every time I tried one of those things, it never clicked. I would leave school and go to my theater class, and that's when I'd actually sit down and listen.

Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.

I have things that I'm interested in, and I'm not really interested in writing about anything that I'm not interested in. But it's important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.

I've found three or four things that are quite interesting to me that I'm focused on. That's been fun.The Clippers is obviously one of them.

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

If you are bored, you are not paying attention.

Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".

Read much, but not many works.

The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and make sure that reading is a fun, rewarding experience outside the classroom.

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.