James Gleick Quotes

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

Reading taught me how to write.

Think how slow would be your progress in learning without printed books: you could study only manuscripts, and those necessarily must be very few in number. Learn from this to value your books, and always handle them with care.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

May books spread the world over!

Reading is a huge part of life.

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be.

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

Paper is at the center of so many of the elements of the development of civilization.

We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.