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Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is
what you get from not reading it. — Common

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience. — John Fowles

The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling. — Maureen Corrigan

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended. — Arthur Smith

Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Wisdom is not acquired by reading. Wisdom is what results when you incorporate this knowledge into your personal experience. — Jim Lawless

Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day. — Mike Schmidt

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. — Paul Nurse

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. — Thomas Perry

For a child, reading a book can be such an intense experience. — Michelle Paver

Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris. — Gayle Forman

You are a reader, and therefore a thinker, an observer, a living soul who wants more out of this human experience. — Salil Jha

There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written. — Kenzaburo Oe

It's the feelings or emotions that you experience while you're reading a book that you remember, not the details that make up the plot. — Frederick Dillen

like traveling without knowing what country you're going to — Austin Wright

The journey of life can be travel through experience and reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive. — T.C. Boyle

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt. — Stephen Chbosky

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands. — Ramona Koval

Dreams are illusions where our experiences experience us — S.E. Sever

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different. — Sydney Pollack

To leap over the wall of self, to look through another's eyes--this is valuable experience, which literature offers. — X.J. Kennedy

It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work. — Charlie Munger

Through our reading we can travel to other times and other places, into other peoples minds and hearts and souls: it is a transcendent experience. — Louise DeSalvo

To translate knowledge and information into experience: that seems to be the function of literature and art. — Joseph Campbell

I said something about reading not being knowledge, about knowledge without experience being food without sustenance. — David Mitchell

The ultimate aim of reading or writing poetry is to enrich one's life experience. — Marty Rubin

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do — Ann Patchett

I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card reading, but I don't know if I'd necessarily want to know. — Samantha Shannon

Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience ... is increasingly visual. — Sol Stein

Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience. — Thomas Ehrlich

You write out of experience, and a large part of that experience is the life of the spirit; reading is the liberation into the minds of others. — Penelope Lively

Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience. — Joyce Rachelle

Reading a book is one mind playing with another. — A. J. Gallant

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class. — Michelle Williams

Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book. — Gabrielle Zevin

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book. — Mark Twain

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time. — Antony Beevor

I do not have more information after reading a poem; I have more experience. — Eugene H. Peterson

Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me. — Chad Harbach

Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities. — Willie Van Peer

A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. — Katherine Paterson

Knowledge comes from reading but wisdom comes from experience of living. — Debasish Mridha

We get one chance at this life. We have one body, one mind, and one life to live. Reading provides us with a vicarious experience of others' lives. — Tony Reinke

Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience. — William Gaddis

I need to experience books, not just read them. — Lauren Morrill

When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic. — Carmela Dutra

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive. — Chaim Potok

It is equally important to learn from experience and from books. — Eraldo Banovac

Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay. — Serina Hartwell

Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device. — Bill Gates

We don't want to read a book. We want to live an experience. — Carolyn Wheat

The pleasure of reading is indescribable. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too! — Mary Ruefle

You have the capacity to do the work. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so. — Wallace Stevens

A powerful flight of the imagination ... an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence. — Roger Zelazny

If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work. — Jeff VanderMeer

Madefire is igniting a new era by creating a modern, dynamic reading experience and bringing that to the millions of iPad users around the world. — Dave Gibbons

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers. — R.A. Salvatore

THE EXPERIENCE OF READING A COMIC SHOULD NOT BE THE TIME IT TAKES TO TURN EACH PAGE. — Adrian Tomine

Ninety-five percent of the difficulties you will experience as a Christian can be traced to a lack of Bible study and reading. — Billy Graham

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard. — Susie Bright

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love. — Jorge Luis Borges

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. — Erica Jong

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through ... That is why people read: to have experiences. — Bonnie Friedman

Reading a non-fiction book is like a religious experience. — Rachel Perry

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience. — Douglas Rushkoff

People experience books so very differently. — Amy Neftzger

Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction. — Raymond A. Mar

That's still the best reading experience: falling in love with a book I meet by accident. — Alice Hoffman