Books Quote by George F Will

Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of reading…

— Joshua Foer

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except…

— Anonymous

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

“Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to analyses of…

— Alexei Panshin

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

— Paul Mellon

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

— Akhil Sharma

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

— Munira Mirza

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

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and…

— Simon Raven

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

— Jane Austen

“No matter what our curriculum requires us to teach or how little class time we have, children must read a lot in order to…

— Donalyn Miller

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