Books Quote by Mortimer J. Adler

“...We must also realize-students, teachers, and laymen alike-that even when we have accomplished the task that lies before us, we will not have accomplished…

— Mortimer J. Adler

“Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.”

— Y.S. Lee

“What is competent writing? Competent writing is writing that efficiently describes ideas and concepts to an audience, using a grammar that the audience can…

— John Scalzi

“He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

“The more refined and intellectual our needs become, the less they are capable of satiety.”

— William Stanley Jevons

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century…

— William J. Clinton

“Literacy is one of the greatest gifts a person could receive.”

— Jen Selinsky

“The same skills needed for writing are needed or reading. Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and readers fail…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

“I thrive to read just as much as I do to write”

— Laurie Bowler

“I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always were. Reading…

— Julian Barnes

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White

“There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.”

— Elizabeth Hernandez