He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
He that loves reading has everything within his reach.