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“Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.”
― Tomie dePaola

“The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English, the French and the Russian -- all took place in societies where the rate of literacy was approaching 50 per cent. Literacy had a profound effect on the peasant mind and community. It promotes abstract thought and enables the peasant to master new skills and technologies, Which in turn helps him to accept the concept of progress that fuels change in the modern world.”
― Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924

“Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!”
― Mitch Hedberg

“All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Everyone was literate as a matter of course. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that. It was there to read, and we read.”
― Katherine Ann Porter

“Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.”
― Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir

“I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.”
― Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

“Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a page.... How a book can have 560 pages, but in only three pages change the reader's life.”
― Emoke B'Racz

“Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child's Future.”
― Clyde Heath

“Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Eat pudding. Books are good. Eat pudding. If kids read a lot. Eat pudding. They'll get so they can think clearly. Eat pudding. And if enough kids read and think. Eat pudding. We will have world peace. Eat pudding. Thank you very much. Eat pudding.”
― Daniel Pinkwater, Fish Whistle: Little Short Essays by Daniel Pinkwater

“That's just it, Eva said with a gleam in her eyes that matched the rhinestones on her glasses, you had to get somebody to teach you, to facilitate. Literacy wasn't like a piece of my mama's lemon cake you handed over to somebody on a plate.”
― Minrose Gwin, The Queen of Palmyra

“As immigrant artists for whom so much has been sacrificed, so many dreams have been deferred, we already doubt so much. Who do we think we are? We think we are people who risked not existing at all. People who might have had a mother and father killed, either by a government or nature, even before we were born. Some of us think we are accidents of literacy. I do.”
― Edwidge Danticat

“There were the talking squiggles he'd seen in the crashed Globe too - writing, it was called - and it covered every surface, as if in this mass of people a man could be so lonely as to want to speak to the buildings.”
― Peadar Ó Guilín, The Deserter

“Before Gutenberg, libraries were small -- the Cambridge University library had only 122 volumes in 1424, for instance; after Gutenberg literacy became widespread.”
― Larry Stone, The Story of the Bible

“With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.”
― The Bureau Chiefs, Write More Good: An Absolutely Phony Guide

“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought of opening a novel before. There's nothing like a shovelful of dirt to encourage literacy.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“I hope that as a totally literate human being that you don't even know what "illiteracy" is because it simply doesn't exist in your world.”
― Peter Davis, Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!

“To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and literacy so that we will purchase its programs and materials.”
― Mike Schmoker, Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning

“Even if you have to die tomorrow; die as a literate.”
― M.F. Moonzajer