Eric Allin Cornell Quotes

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

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.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.

Read much, but not many books.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

What I read, I read thoroughly and retain almost all of it.

My attention is constantly being caught! I'm constantly learning, constantly becoming fascinated by new things - I'm lucky that I read incredibly quickly and absorb a lot of information easily, because otherwise I don't think I'd ever get my head out of a book!

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

I don't think I ever consciously separated 'school' books from any others; I just read anything that came across my path.

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the computer now and get a lot of benefit out of it, but I doubt that it'll work as well as reading print worked for me.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.