Quotes About Critical Reading

#1. I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.

Diane Wakoski

#2. But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

Hilary Mantel

#3. Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems.

Michelle Obama

#4. But it seems to me inevitable that any person who gives thoughtful and imaginative attention to literature must be awakened in his sensibilities, enlarged in his sympathies, sharpened in his critical faculties.

Denham Sutcliffe

#5. What was home, really? Just a place to lay your head.
No. It was so much more than that. It was a place where a person belonged. Where a fellow would be missed. It was a part of a man. Something that couldn't be sold or taken for granted.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#6. Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Albert Camus

#7. In our culture, the Native Americans, when two strangers come together. You know what we do in our culture? We smoke the peace pipe.

Tatanka

#8. I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book ... you get critical reviews and sales figures, but none of that is the same as knowing you've made a person stay up all night reading, or helped them have a good cry, or really touched their life.

Jodi Picoult

#9. I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would like to write a critical book that might have some of those how-to elements in it.

Mary Karr

#10. An actor works with their soul and their thought.

Monica Bellucci

#11. I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want.

Justine Larbalestier

#12. At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.

Karen DeCrow

#13. Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]

Harper Lee

#14. You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.

Saul Bellow

#15. In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do - spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

Julia Cameron

#16. It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all those about us share in our sufferings. The ills of the soul one can hide, but those which attack the body and destroy the faculties cannot be concealed.

Charlotte Bronte

#17. Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the invaluable mental power we call judgment.

Sam Wineburg

#18. One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".

Andrew Roberts

#19. I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

Emma Bonino

#20. If you don't like how others define & label you, then work on your values. Embrace and practice values that you would like to be associated.

Assegid Habtewold

#21. What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay.

Rivers Cuomo

#22. As parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them, talk to them about what they're reading, and make time for this by turning off the television set ourselves. Libraries are a critical tool to help parents do this.

Barack Obama

#23. The war between the Iranians and Iraqis is a touchy issue. To be quite honest, they each other's guts. It was not responsible to let one of our ships be put into a war zone like that.

Sam Nunn