#reading

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#cow #grazing #mere #must #pleasure

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#kids #readers #reading #funny

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer. ↗

— Rita Dove

#find #i #love #read #reading

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. ↗

— Rita Dove

#congress #distinct #duties #how #i

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#intensely #literature #live #more #ourselves

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#days #discussing #i #i have learned #learned

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#charter #charter schools #florida #gained #improved

We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#beloved #faces #flowers #road #roads

I spend a lot of time reading. ↗

— Bill Gates

#lot #reading #spend #time #time reading

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over. ↗

— Bill Gates

#digital #fantastic #lightweight #over #reading