James Gleick Quotes

Reading taught me how to write.

You can't write if you don't read.

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 a huge part of life.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

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

I've loved reading all my life.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader comes to reading with a 'fresh' brain - one that is programmed to speak, see, and think, but not to read.

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

I'm actually not that big a fan of reading.

We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it afresh.

When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives you that capacity for self-reflection that you simply do not have without the agency of books.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

I really don't like to read.

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.

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

It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

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

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

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

If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough.

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.