#read

Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen. I think whatever happens, we have to figure out a way to protect our imaginations. Stories and poetry do that. You need a language in this world. People want words, they want to hear their situation in language, and find a way to talk about it. It allows you to find a language to talk about your own pain. If you give kids a language, they can use it. I think that’s what these educators fear. If you really educate these kids, they aren’t going to punch you in the face, they are going to challenge you with your own language. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#literacy #online-interview #power-of-reading #reading #death

Reading should be a repeat performance. ↗

— John Barton

#reading #repeat #should

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that. ↗

— John Barton

#beginnings #get #i #like #many

Who is the ideal reader? God only knows. ↗

— John Barton

#ideal #knows #only #reader #who

I read Russian literature a lot. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#literature #lot #read #russian

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#danger #fiction #may #more #readers

I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

#believe #everything #fashion #i #read

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#book #looking #necessary #next #read

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy. ↗

— Howard Berman

#act #ago #almost #been #breadth

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. ↗

— Claude Bernard

#know #learning #often #prevents #us