Gary Ross Quotes

I think that we all absolutely have curiosity. It brings about knowledge. It's energizing. It's spiritually empowering. It makes us more interesting as people.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

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

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

My father encouraged me to work in the library, just because it was the world that he knew. But I also wanted to do it. I also wanted to work in the library and be part of the library somehow, because it represented a world that really wasn't represented in my home, and I wanted it to be.

A girl named Rachel transformed my childhood. Life was safe, suburban and comfortable, but ours was a home without books. I met her aged 11, and she introduced me to the joys of poetry and literature. It opened my mind to ideas I could never have dreamed of.

To learn something new every day is still exciting!

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you'd like to know.

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'

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

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

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

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.