Literacy Promotion Quotes

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.

We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their medicine. You would tell them, ‘Take this or you’re going to die.’ We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them.

If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big difference. Hollywood and the NBA or NFL could step in, too. In England they have an event called Book Day, where every child receives a pound to use at any bookstore.

I think any comic book - or really, any book that you can read - in a sense is an educational tool in that it helps literacy. The more you read, the better you get at it. It almost doesn't matter what you read, the important thing is for young people to become readers.

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.

This is what I believe is most important: getting good books into the hands of kids - books that will make them want to say, 'Wow, that was great. Give me another one to read.'

I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more.

From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I looked forward to summer as the time when I could work at the library four or five days a week. I was never a camp counselor, a lifeguard, a scooper of ice cream.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written.And guess What? It's all available.All you have to do is go to the library.But guess what?Only three percent of the people in America have a library card.Wow,they must be expensive!No, they're free.Probably in every neighborhood.Three percent!

One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.

Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.

I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.

The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.

Libraries are the pride of the city.