The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers.
Or shall I hear the name of Plato and never read his book?
If we will read newspapers, why not skip the gossip of Boston and take the best newspaper in the world at once?
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
While they were talking Cardenio had taken up the novel and begun to read it, and forming the same opinion of it as the curate, he begged him to read it so that they might all hear it.
"I would read it," said the curate, "if the time would not be better spent in sleeping."
"Well then, in that case," said the curate, "I will read it, if it were only out of curiosity; perhaps it may contain something pleasant."
Don Quixote
I think I can read the writing at the beginning of the Second Part.
'There is no more that can be read, my dear fellow.
The Haunted Hotel
Oscar Wilde says, "If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all." Do you
read books over and over?
Want to be successful? Read..
"If your son was to
read more fiction, the story is a little more complex.
ASK THE EXPERT MY TEENAGE [...]
Intensive Reading is also known as 'Narrow Reading', it may direct a reader to
read the selected material or similarly related topic which best matches the subject or the area.
The power of reading
There are many reasons why many young children in Cambodia cannot
read; three are most prominent:
Working towards a national reading culture
The stigma of self-selected free reading needs to come off and young readers need to be encouraged to
read what they like, in order to prevent them from giving up reading all together.
Krashen, Stephen D., Sy-Ying Lee, and Christy Lao. Comprehensible and Compelling: The Causes and Effects of Free Voluntary Reading
Therefore, the highest number of the participants agreed upon the strategy that they have a purpose in mind when they
read any excerpt.
The Reading Proficiency of L2 Learners in English Language at the Government Boys Degree Colleges in Sindh
The theory behind self-selected reading is that students who are required to
read will develop an interest to
read, and will subsequently
read more, if they have a vested interest in what they are reading (Krashen, 2006).
Adapting self-selected reading practices for college-level developmental reading courses