Book Quote by Doris Lessing

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

— Doris Lessing

People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies.…

— Gore Vidal

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd

Without books we're a very uneducated society. Think of the places books have taken us, the people we've been introduced to (fiction or non-fiction)…

— Tom Robinson

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

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by…

— Storm Jameson

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is…

— Aldous Huxley

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they…

— A. S. Byatt

One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing…

— Nelson Mandela

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous…

— Alberto Manguel

I think it's crucial to recognize that we are so fortunate to have this human birth where we can practice what we want, pick…

— Tenzin Palmo

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

— Dorothy L. Sayers