Robert Frost Quotes

It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite.

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.

Learning to read clusters is not something your eyes do naturally. It takes constant practice.

I recommend the art of slow reading.

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.

When someone says to me, 'I love your book - I read it in a day,' I want to tell them to go back and read it again.

Good readers make much out of little.

I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can slow the whole process down. Then, because of my disability, there is more for me in imaginative literature than there is for other people.

A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems.

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

a good reader makes a good book

The secret to speed-reading is moving your lips faster.

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.

In reading, one should notice and fondle details.

Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to read - poetry for example, or high-quality prose. They're used to reading magazines and newspapers, which are only of the mind, but not of the body.

Better readers are better thinkers.

When you inherit a segment that people grew up with, they are like, "This is not what I'm used to." It's hard. There's a period where you're trying to do what people are used to and fulfill what they miss. After a while you just have got to shake it off and be yourself.

Sometimes you miss friends, and it's hard for them, as well, when you're just gone for a long time. I can't just go and see them any time I want because when I'm free, they may not be free, but I definitely wouldn't change it, ever. But, when you find really great friends, that doesn't matter, and I'm lucky to have some people who really, really look after me and look out for me. I definitely wouldn't ever change it.

I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It's amazing how we go to school when we're so young, read all of these books, just trying to memorize them. When you start to live, you don't have to memorize anything.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

He tried to listen to the conversations going on at the table and he found that he could no longer concentrate on what anyone was saying and which was worse that he was not interested in any of what he was able to hear.