Augusta Quote by Audre Lorde

“In the library I search for a good book. We have many books, says Mrs. Rose, the librarian, and ALL of them are good.…

— Sally Murphy

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. I have read all Mrs.…

— Jane Austen

“You have been abroad then?” said Henry, a little surprised. “Oh! No, I only mean what I have read about. It always puts me…

— Jane Austen

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

— Jacques Ellul

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to…

— Henry Giroux

I realize, of course, that I wasn't born knowing how to read. I just can't imagine a time when I didn't know how.

— Katherine Paterson

You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.

— Evan Esar

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.

— Nick Nolte

“Being able to read and knowing how to read are completely different concepts.”

— S.A. Garcia

“I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn.”

— Patricia Goldbach

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with…

— Nat Turner

I never learned to read music.

— Norman Spinrad