Accepting Quote by Naguib Mahfouz

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

— Karin Slaughter

Reading becomes the fuel for development.

— Narendra Modi

We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader…

— Maryanne Wolf

After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never…

— Maryanne Wolf

Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

— Eric Thomas

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.

— Anonymous

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

— David Warlick

We don't simply read books. We become them.

— Anatole Broyard

We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential…

— Alberto Manguel

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

— Gene Luen Yang

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.

— Bruno Bettelheim

Reading is essential to human life. When the last reader dies, humanity will be at an end.

— Anthony McCarten