About 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. They long for the…

— Robert Hass

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

— Strive Masiyiwa

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

— Ashleigh Brilliant

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

— Robert Hass

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

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

— Donalyn Miller

Why don't you write books people can read?

— Nora Joyce

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

— Flannery O'Connor

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

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world…

— Rachel Kushner

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.

— Roxane Gay

The only books I give up on are texts where the writer's attention is concentrated so heavily on narrative questions that his or her…

— Anthony Doerr