Value of reading quotes:

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  • Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading. -- Marco Arment
  • I didn't understand the Kindle's true value until I finished an e-book on the beach. In sixty seconds - and without benefit of pants - I had brand-new reading material at my fingertips. -- Jen Lancaster
  • Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. -- Caroline Kennedy
  • It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication. -- Victoria Osteen
  • Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of reading over quality of reading. We have no choice, if we want to keep up with the broader culture. -- Joshua Foer
  • If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes you money, you also run the risk of depriving the child for ever of the value of it. Markets are not innocent. -- Michael Sandel
  • If a scientist is reading a paper online and clicks through to purchase material, there's value there. It might be a business model; it might be enough to defray the cost of open access. I just want to create the infrastructure that makes movement and sharing easier. -- John Wilbanks
  • Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper. -- Jo Brand
  • I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. -- John Green
  • I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous. -- David Nicholls
  • If we value all readers, we must value all reading. -- Donalyn Miller
  • Reading the bible is like dumpster diving. You sift through the garbage hoping to find anything of value. -- Nick Krampus
  • Because they are inherently social, people find value in reading the same books and watching the same movies that others do. -- Anita Elberse
  • I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious. -- Mary Stuart Masterson
  • I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.' -- E. L. James
  • Make sure your reading, studying or research are always adding value to the defined vision, mission, beliefs and values that form your unique personal brand. -- Archibald Marwizi
  • I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are. -- Paul Ryan
  • If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents. -- Sven Birkerts
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