Reading to small children is a specialty.
– Clifton Fadiman
Related Quotes:
- When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. – Clifton Fadiman
- Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew. – Clifton Fadiman
- One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. – Clifton Fadiman
- When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. – Clifton Fadiman
- The literature of America should reflect the children of America. – Lucille Clifton
- Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase. – Anne Fadiman
- Getting out of tight jams was his specialty. – Hunter Shea
- Our specialty was exasperated dignity and the discombombulation of Authority. – Mack Sennett
- Keeping secrets isn’t my specialty. – Hannah Harrington
- There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. – James Patterson
- Annie Taliaferro had that hammerhead look about her, like a breachy range cow, or a bunch-quitting steer. – Clifton Adams
- But really, aren’t there bits of magic everywhere we look?’ Dr. Clifton continues. ‘We’ve just stopped seeing it that way. – Emily Bain Murphy
- Rosalind exploded with a shriek worthy of a tea-kettle. – Emma Clifton
- Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. – CS Lewis
- If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs. – Anne Fadiman
- I have never been able to resist a book about books. – Anne Fadiman
- In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar. – Anne Fadiman
- I’d rather have a book, but in a pinch I’ll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions. – Anne Fadiman
- But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren’t careful, they floated away. – Anne Fadiman
- Marina wouldn’t want to be remembered because she dead. She would want to be remembered because she’s good. – Anne Fadiman
- When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. – Cliff Fadiman
- You’re a romantic. What’s romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there? – Anne Fadiman
- A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest. – CS Lewis
- I’ve got a pretty good idea what children are, and we’re not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. – Orson Scott Card
- You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice. – John Lothrop Motley
- What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream the rest are not worth reading. – Rikki Ducornet
- No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50. – Gladys M Hunt
- reading books is great, reading pictures much better, especially those that shows you the future – Manuel Corazzari
- Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read. – Christian Bauman
- Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading. – Susan Sontag
- Always be reading something, he said. Even when we’re not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant. – Ali Smith
- Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end… – Kate DiCamillo
- There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of. – Louis Althusser
- a town with more drinking joints than reading joints has a problem reading can solve – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- It is more important to understand the book you are reading than to finish the book you are reading. – Clifford Cohen
- Reading an author’s Biography contributes to an understanding and enjoyment of their work, and gives a richness to the reading experience. – Suzy Davies
- When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- To start speaking my language start reading what I read… start reading what I have written. Listen to what I have listened. – Deyth Banger
- Reading might be the root of ideas and inventions, even in the case of leisure reading. – Eraldo Banovac
- We often speak of creating an environment for reading, a reading climate. – Teri S Lesesne