Doris Lessing Quotes

I came from a home where everybody had a book.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

One of my secret nerdy things is that I love education.

Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book.

Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.

My dad was a miner, but he was very much an intellectual. He loved to read.

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

I don't think I read an entire book in high school.

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

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.

Nothing substitutes for a great education.

Everybody can't be Lil Wayne. Some of us have to pick up a book.

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.

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

I don't judge anyone of any stripe by what they read. Reading is always good for you. It's a positive act.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

Well-read people are less likely to be evil.

Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how 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.

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.