Books Quote by S. I. Hayakawa

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not…

— S. I. Hayakawa

“In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is…

— S. I. Hayakawa

Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

— Jim Rohn

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

— Flannery O'Connor

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

— Mark Twain

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

— Ashleigh Brilliant

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

— Earl Nightingale

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

— Jonathan Lethem

Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

— Mark Twain

“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

The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much…

— Norman Cousins

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