Sherman Alexie Quotes

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

I'm actually not that big a fan of reading.

Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

Read good, big important things.

Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me that's a distant second. When I see a child clutching a book... to his or her tiny bosom, I'm moved. Children can possess a book in a way they can never possess a video game, a TV show, or a Darth Vader doll. A book comes alive when they read it. They give it life themselves by understanding it.

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

I enjoyed learning the poems, but I didn't understand of what use they might possibly be. ‘They'll keep you company on the day you have no books to read,' my teacher said.

How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and I sense that she gets what the book is about, then it doesn't really matter to me if she gets an A on the paper.

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!