Book Quote by Anonymous

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial…

— B. F. Skinner

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

— B. F. Skinner

Books don’t change the world, people change the world, books only change people.

— Mario Quintana

My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things…

— Guy Davenport

If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.

— Scott Spencer

I don’t think books can change the world, but when the world begins to change, it searches for different books.

— Shlomo Sand

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art…

— Benjamin Disraeli

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

— Anonymous

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

— Eleanor Catton

Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.

— Mason Cooley

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

— Félix J. Palma

Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody's wishing…

— Gustave Flaubert