Joe Orton Quotes

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.)

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.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

I consider reading to be part of my job.

I was so fortunate to be raised in a household filled with books and - as you might imagine to be the case in the Bush home - plenty of conversation.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

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.

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

My alma mater was books, a good library.

Read, read read. Read everything.

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

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.

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

My parents gave me that gift of "reading is a good thing." I mean my mother was afraid of everything. But she was never afraid that Judy is reading.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.