Quotes About Comprehension

Yeah, if you go too far, like there's some rappers that use words that just be a little too out there, it makes it where someone doesn't really know what you're talking about and don't really have the time to sit and try to understand.

Listening is the most under rated part of my profession.

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all.

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

I think my reaction to most issues is to get the facts and circumstances.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

We are not only what we read. We are how we read.

I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.

You read a script, and you know if you need to do it.

People do not read first. First and foremost, they see color. Then they see numbers, then shape, and then, if you still have their attention and they understand what you put in front of them, then they will read.

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

I'm a lousy reader.

I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and analyze it just like that.

What I'm interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make what he wants of it.

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.