Top 37 Books Literacy Quotes
#1. If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
Francois Mauriac
#2. Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of the soul, than a well-stocked library.
L.R. Knost
#3. As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!
Jan Karon
#4. These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and literacy so that we will purchase its programs and materials.
Mike Schmoker
#5. Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.
Irina Bokova
#6. The value of universal literacy is of course questionable in a society that practices the strictest form of censorship.
Victor Andres Triay
#7. He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#8. Who made you Queen of Literacy? Go sit in your car!
Jackson Pearce
#9. To speak without shame about books we haven't read, we would thus do well to free ourselves of the oppressive image of cultural literacy without gaps, as transmitted and imposed by family and school, for we can strive toward this image for a lifetime without ever managing to coincide with it.
Pierre Bayard
#10. Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.
Tomie DePaola
#11. To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#12. When you learn to read you will be born again ... and you will never be quite so alone again.
Rumer Godden
#13. If you grow up in a household where there are books, where you are read to, where parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and cousins read for their own pleasure, naturally you learn to read. If no one close to you takes joy in reading, where is the evidence that it's worth the effort?
Carl Sagan
#14. By the highway, the Hudson - the library books straining at their delibags, corners poking. Straining my arms, throttling my hands, the numb rewards of literacy.
Joshua Cohen
#15. The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the fellow who can't read a line.
Mark Twain
#16. Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
Vera Nazarian
#17. Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!
Mitch Hedberg
#18. One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Carl Sagan
#19. The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
Aberjhani
#20. There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
Patrick Carman
#21. SUPPORT LITERACY! A child who cannot read cannot text.
Ron Brackin
#22. The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn't achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who's reading aloud - it's the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.
Mem Fox
#23. People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
Malcolm X
#25. We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.
Bill Drayton
#26. All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Everyone was literate as a matter of course. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that. It was there to read, and we read.
Katherine Ann Porter
#28. I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.
Robert Hass
#29. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Eat pudding. Books are good. Eat pudding. If kids read a lot. Eat pudding. They'll get so they can think clearly. Eat pudding. And if enough kids read and think. Eat pudding. We will have world peace. Eat pudding. Thank you very much. Eat pudding.
Daniel Pinkwater
#30. All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle
#31. I see this land flowing with books, Father. Widespread literacy. Books everywhere, as common as they used to be in circulation before the Crossing, affordable even for the poor.
Erika Johansen
#32. The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and one that I hope will keep readers all over the UK exploring and sharing the wonderful world of books.
Tessa Jowell
#33. No, Fulton was colored. She understands this luminous truth. Natchez did not lie about that: she has seen it in the man's books, made plain by her new literacy. In the last few days she has learned how to read, like a slave does, one forbidden word at a time.
Colson Whitehead
#34. How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a page.... How a book can have 560 pages, but in only three pages change the reader's life.
Emoke B'Racz
#36. Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child's Future.
Clyde Heath
#37. No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.
Stanislaw Lem
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