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When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years. -- Michael J. Schmoker
I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews. -- Ebon Moss-Bachrach
You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide. -- Justin Cronin
I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something. -- Eric Schmidt
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise. -- Michael Morpurgo
Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do. -- Matthew Tobin Anderson
I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive. -- Jack W. Szostak
I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it. -- Kacey Musgraves
No matter what, the way to learn to program is to write code and rewrite it and see it used and rewrite again. Reading other people's code is invaluable as well. -- Brian Kernighan
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. -- Will Rogers
Not every child learns the same way. I could not learn through my eyes. Reading was impossible. Math, to compute it in my mind, was impossible. I learned everything through listening. -- Henry Winkler
Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present. -- Fergie
I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other. -- John McGahern
I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in. -- Ice Cube
I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. -- Jose Saramago
At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized. -- Karen DeCrow
Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books. -- Anne Rice
By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas. -- Nicholas Sparks
When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it. -- Richard P. Feynman
Four of my children are daughters, and I've watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over. -- Robert K. Massie
The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading. -- Rick Yancey
You can learn investing by reading books. -- Bill Ackman
Learn as much by writing as by reading. -- Lord Acton
You learn by reading but understand by LOVE. -- Shams Tabrizi
People learn in different ways: reading, listening, pictures, watching. -- W. Edwards Deming
Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it. -- Maxwell Perkins
Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading. -- Marie Arana
We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them -- Thomas Jefferson
That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading. -- William Faulkner
We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it. -- T. S. Eliot
Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn. -- Jami Attenberg
You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free. -- Paul Rand
You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York. -- William Lyon Phelps
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. -- Beverly Cleary
I can learn my lines fine. It's just reading them in the first place that is the problem. -- Salma Hayek
One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not. -- Oswald Spengler
Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge. -- Eric Thomas
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything. -- Tomie dePaola
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read. -- Christian Bauman
Keep reading books, but remember that a book's only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. -- Maxim Gorky
For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable. -- Robert M. Hutchins
Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile. -- Laura Bush
Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures. -- Pope John Paul II
Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience. -- Thomas Ehrlich
You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes. -- David Markson
If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important. -- Gail Carson Levine
You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself. -- Stephen King
Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice. -- Rick Warren
It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable. -- Wendell Berry
School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community. -- Bunker Roy
It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class. -- Julie B. Beck
Teachers, parents and school administrators: Today's teachers can create a Planet of Peace. The communication process you will learn by reading Nonviolent Communication is the cornerstone. -- Robert Muller
You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose! -- Cupideros
Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story. -- John Dufresne
Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first. -- Keith Rabois
I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn. -- Muhammad Ali
[General James Mattis] said, reading allows you to learn from other people's mistakes without filling body bags with the bodies of your soldiers as you learn on the battlefield. -- Peter R. Mansoor
Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we're throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives. -- Richard Bach

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