Sherman Alexie Quotes

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

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.

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

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read. . . . We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.

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

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

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.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

Read books. They are good for us.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

I love to read and learn.

I like to read and understand.

I try to read as much as I can.

I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

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

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

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.