C. J. McCollum Quotes

Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

Reading is power. Reading is life.

I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

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

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Education is the mother of leadership.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important.

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.

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

The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.

Education is freedom.

Education is everything. It's for everyone. We all need to be educated.

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

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