Books are the quietest
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends. Charles William Eliot
Speed Reading
Books are the quietest
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. Charles William Eliot
The secret to speed-reading
The secret to speed-reading is moving your lips faster. Charles M. Schulz
I took a speed
I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted. Brian Regan
Teaching literature is teaching
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 … Read more
Wear the old coat
Wear the old coat and buy the new book. Austin Phelps
To read a writer
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. Andre Gide
Never lend books, for
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them Anatole France
Never lend books, for
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me. Anatole France