The smallest world on earth is that which is created by a closed mind.
School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.
I blinked at her, suddenly loathing her to the depths of my soul. Not only was she probably rather evil, and definitely thoroughly unpleasant, but she also didn't read.
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability...
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their i...
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it.
To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.