Richard K. Morgan Quotes

I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old.

Seeing that we were book enthusiasts, my mother began hauling my sister and me down to the Stanton Free Library on Tuesday afternoons, where I'd find two or three books to bring home.

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

I lived in the library with my grandmother as a child. I still love the smell of books; the library card is still my friend.

I suggest school buses make stops at local libraries so that children who do not have resources like books at home can get access.

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

Reading is the basics for all learning.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

I think if people read more, that is a better world.

I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.

How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.

One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

Reading is more important than writing.

If you can read and don't, you're dumb.

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel of the books in my hands and the magical new worlds I discovered always drew me back to that fantastic place. Each time I visited, I could expect to find a new adventure and from time to time use my imagination to revisit my favorite place and enjoy Green Eggs and Ham in a house, with a mouse, on a train, on a plane, in a box, with a fox.