Sherman Alexie Quotes

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Man is what he reads.

President Bush said that our kids must be taught how to read. He said if his aides never learned to read, they'd never be able to tell him what's in the newspapers every day.

We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

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

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

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

You can't write if you don't read.

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

I read a lot as a kid and in high school.

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

I've loved reading all my life.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.