Da Chen Quotes

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Books are feeders of brothels.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one — but no one at all — can tell you what to read and when and how.

The health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support out libraries.

Among the earliest modern commodities were printed books … and their shrinking price and increased availability were far more historically momentous than, say, the spread of the internal combustion engine.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go into your library and read every book so long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.

I was a bookworm in school, and in those days it was easy to get books. Bigger cities had book shops.

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 alma mater was books, a good library.

I love libraries, as anyone who has a brain does.

My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books.

In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.

I try to read as much as I can.

It would probably surprise people how prevalent reading is in institutions - and the degree to which some states discourage reading by instituting draconian rules and laws that try to limit and outright roadblock books in prisons.

I think reading about black girls if you are a black girl is important. And for those who don't like to read, seeing yourself in a book can help them learn to love it.

I don't care what you read, as long as you're reading something 'cause when you read somethin', you're learning somethin'.

There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read.

If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

Books are like tweets, except longer.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.