Maryanne Wolf Quotes

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind , and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections:;; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

I like to read and understand.

What is reading but silent conversation?

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

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

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Rereading, we find a new book.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

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.

Read in order to live.

You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.