Please respond to each of these questions.  The more honest your answers, the better I can teach you.  This is the first step in a series of assignments that will use the information from this survey; to do well on them all you must first do well on this--that is, take it seriously.  Unless otherwise indicated, feel free to mark as many as you like in response to any question.

"When I see books that I have read on library shelves, it is like running into an old friend on the street..."--Kevin Starr

"Why do people always expect authors to answer questions?  I am an author because I want to ask questions.  If I had answers, I'd be a politician."--Eugene Ionesco

"When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing."--Blaise Pascal

"Every text is a lazy machine asking the reader to do some of its work."--Umberto Eco

"We read to know we are not alone."--C.S. Lewis

"A good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary and some artistic sense."--Vladimir Nabokov

"People seldom read a book which is given to them."--Samuel Johnson

"I think most writers are bad readers.  We just cannot immerse ourselves in a book.  Our own thoughts get in the way..."--Anthony Burgess

"The great sin is to assume that something that has been read once has been read forever... Nobody reads the same book twice."--Robertson Davies

"Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to unknow."--Sir Richard Francis Burton

"Literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be different."--Denis Donoghue

"A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you... to stick in your teeth like a piece of gristle."--Anatole Broyard

"One cannot read a book: one can only reread it.  A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader."--Vladimir Nabokov

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."--Oscar Wilde

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."--Sir Richard Steele