Book Quote by Katherine Ann Porter

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the…

— Katherine Anne Porter

“It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices.…

— Nora Roberts

There is a young fella who works for me, named Brian Unkeless, who's very smart. We're a very small company that has been Brian…

— Nina Jacobson

Whenever I was encouraged by my elders to pick up a book, I was often told, 'Read so as to know the world.' And…

— Hisham Matar

“Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me…

— Trista Day

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

— Diana Gabaldon

“Books were my hobby, even as a child,' he told me. 'I read about every book in Milkwaukee Public Library before I was 15...Some…

— Ruth Brandon

“We learned about life from the books they told us not to read.”

— Antoinette Ingoldsby

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

— Isaac Rosenberg

Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think that's the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate.

— David Warlick

Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely…

— David Crystal

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I…

— Noam Chomsky

I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why…

— John Travolta

It's the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and really read…

— Robert Hass