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Focused reading is so important, and I'm just as guilty as everyone. I have to force myself to slow down, often printing things out or using print as a medium for things that are most important or for things whose beauty would be lost if I use other modes of reading.

~Maryanne Wolf

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I want my thoughts to be an incentive for the reader to give his or her own thoughts. After I wrote 'Proust and the Squid,' I received truly hundreds of letters - I'm still receiving them - and the letters that I wrote back helped me formulate my thinking around things I know are important to others.

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We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader comes to reading with a 'fresh' brain - one that is programmed to speak, see, and think, but not to read.

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We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it afresh.

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I don't want technology to replace teachers, but where there are no teachers, or the teachers are overwhelmed, it can be helpful.

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If you word-spot James Joyce, you'll miss the entire experience.

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The brain is plastic its whole life span.

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Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

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In reading, we are both scientists and poets.

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What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: Unknown

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