CALENDAR

Historic Reading Educational Literary Posters
for classrooms, homes and tutor's studio.

“Reading” is the process of the reader melding their prior knowledge with the information suggested in the preceived text through the skill of word or symbol identification.

Reading Quotes -
• “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” ~ Joseph Addison
• “One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.” ~ Amos Alcott
• “The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” ~ Mary McLeod Bethune
• “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.” ~ Judy Blume
• “Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks”
• “If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.” ~ Lord Byron
• “I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.” ~ John Cheever
• “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” ~ Rene Descartes
• “Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.” ~ Daphne du Maurier
• “Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer. One orients one's attitude toward the world either by God or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.” ~ G.W.F. Hegel
• “Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.” ~ S. E. Hinton
• “What is reading, but silent conversation?” ~ Charles Lamb
• “Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it – if he wants a safe seat in the audience – let him read someone else.” ~ D. H. Lawrence
• “I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.” ~ Thomas Macaulay
• “The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.” ~ Pablo Neruda
• “Children are always asking me what advice I can give them on trying to be a writer. I always tell them to do a lot of reading, read and study creative writing, then start writing and keep writing and then they can be a writer too. Someday they will make it if they don’t give up.” ~ Wilson Rawls
• “A book worth reading is worth buying.” ~ John Ruskin
• “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.” ~ Bertrand Russell
• “We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.” ~ B. F. Skinner
• “I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.” ~ John Millington Synge
• “My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.” ~ Dylan Thomas