Paul Thomas Anderson Quotes

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

Reading is important.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.

I don't know what else teaches you as much as writing. Perhaps reading. So if I don't have one or the other in the course of the day, I feel old.

I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

Kids who read are bright.

I like to read and understand.

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.