"It matters, if individuals are to retain any capacity to form their own judgments and opinions, that they continue to read for themselves. How they read, well or badly, and what they read, cannot depend wholly upon themselves, but why they read must be for and in their own interest."
Harold Bloom
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
Ray Bradbury
What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
Lewis Carroll
"It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
Edmund Burke
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
Dr. Seuss
"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading."
B. F. Skinner
