Book Quote by Robert Hass

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.

— Robert Hass

There is more to literacy than 'reading' and 'writing'.

— Strive Masiyiwa

My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.

— Robert Hass

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies.…

— Gore Vidal

More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the…

— Paul Theroux

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

— Piers Anthony

No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many…

— Gore Vidal

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

— John Malkovich

Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.

— Donalyn Miller