Books Quote by George Pelecanos

“If you've ever wondered how many prisons need to operate withinin America, just look at the literacy rate. 60% of America's prison inmates are…

— US Dept. of Education

I definitely read a lot in school, and even more in prison.

— Benny the Butcher

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to…

— Julian Assange

In the first batch of readers, back in the '60s and '70s, the criminal class was still literate, so I would get letters from…

— Donald E. Westlake

And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now.…

— Walter Dean Myers

When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.

— Victor Hugo

Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that doesn't read…

— Jim Trelease

“It has become unecesssary for the police to ban books: their price alone bans them.”

— Eduardo Galeano

A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“No policeman had ever arrested anyone for over-reading; but ignorance prosecutes those who under-read. You begin to stop growing on the day you stop…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

— Joseph O'Neill

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

— John Waters