Affection Quote by David Hepworth

“Literacy isn't just about reading, writing, and comprehension. It's about culture, professionalism, and social outlook.”

— Taylor Ellwood

“Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“To speak without shame about books we haven’t read, we would thus do well to free ourselves of the oppressive image of cultural literacy…

— Pierre Bayard

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long for the…

— Robert Hass

“Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads.

— Sherman Alexie

“Our own lives are filled with experiences and beliefs that are peculiar to our culture, and would seem bizarre to anyone outside it. We…

— Darren Oldridge

“It is childish to study a work of fiction in order to gain information about a country or about a social class or about…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Few things contain and impact the immediacy of cultural impress so evocatively as books, and not only through their ideas. A book is an…

— William Everson

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much.…

— Doris Lessing

I think quite a misguided literary culture has grown up in the 20th century that says a book has to have a seriousness of…

— Nick Hornby

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most…

— Sara Sheridan

There was a time when Stefan Zweig was the most widely read author in the world. He was lionized everywhere, translated into every language.…

— Andre Aciman