Books Quote by Jesse Ball

Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The American people don't read.

— Allen Dulles

Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means by which…

— David Simon

Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Americans need to develop a “habit of mind” that includes reading books.”

— David Souter

As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

— Karin Slaughter

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

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

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

— Brad Henry

Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

— Jim Rohn

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not…

— Jennifer Egan

The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words.

— James Purdy