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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

Book, Reading, Understanding

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

Book, Reading, Helping

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

Teaching, Reading, Thinking

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

Inspirational, Book, Reading

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.26, Penguin

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

Stars, Real, Reading

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.33, Penguin

Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else.

Reading, Writing, Ideas

[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.

Reading, Writing, Talking

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

Reading, Writing, Where You Are

"An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall". nerdfighteria.info. January 15, 2013.

Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does not exist for the benefit of the author, the book exists for the benefit of YOU. If we as readers can have a bigger and richer experience with the world as a result of reading a symbol and that symbol wasn't intended by the author, WE STILL WIN.

Book, Reading, Winning

Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together.

Real, Book, Reading

Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.

Reading, People, Understanding

...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the job of reading is to divine authorial intent.

Jobs, Real, Reading

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.

Reading, Writing, Thinking

YouTube Chanel "vlogbrothers"/ "Nov. 26th: Writing Advice (And Notes on Surnameless Tiffany)", www.youtube.com. November 26, 2007.

Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.

Reading, World, Quiet

In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you.

Book, Reading, Writing

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

Book, Reading, Writing

Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I'd played in her dying. But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightining.

Reading, Night, Dying

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Penguin

Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

Dad, Book, Reading

John Green (2006). “An Abundance of Katherines”, Dutton Childrens Books

In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself.

Cute, Baby, Reading

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.55, Penguin

If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you’re into it.” “Withholding judgment! When can I see you?” “Certainly not until you finish An Imperial Affliction.” I enjoyed being coy. “Then I’d better hang up and start reading.” “You’d better,” I said, and the line clicked dead without another word. Flirting was new to me, but I liked it.

Reading, Eye, Flirting

"The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

Jobs, Reading, People

Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend. The job of reading is to see into other people as we see ourselves.

Jobs, Reading, People

All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they are made out of language and are made out of words is extremely powerful to me. It becomes transformative for me. Different people have different ways of trying to make stories using language.

Powerful, Real, Reading

"The Fault in Our Stars' John Green on Why He Loves Writing For Teens". Interview with Ryan Roschke, www.popsugar.com. March 31, 2015.

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