America Quote by John Adams

The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.

— Juan Enriquez

I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a…

— Sherman Alexie

I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

— John Gimlette

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

— Anonymous

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

— Toni Morrison

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

— Sherman Alexie

There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

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

Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it…

— Noam Chomsky

You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.

— Ivan van Sertima

We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.

— Robert McKee

I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me,…

— Chath Piersath