#literacy

"As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!"

"If for us culture means museum and library and open house and art gallery, for them it meant the activities and amenities of everyday life... The rift is... between "folk"culture, where the unschooled can be wise, and print culture, which enslaved the other senses to the eye."

"My bursting heart must find vent at my pen."

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

"People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers."

"People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book."

"There’s nothing more important than literary merit, and that’s why I not only created an award—the Julius Caesar Author of the Year Award—but I nominated myself as the first recipient. You can’t always wait for success to come to you. Sometimes you just have to create it out of nothingness. Just ask the Federal Reserve."

"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."

"If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads."

"All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."

"Who made you Queen of Literacy? Go sit in your car!"

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

"I want to be a creature that’s half bee, half the letter B. That way I can pollinate the world with my literacy."

"There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book."

"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."

"With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see."

"I’ll bet opening a store called Boobs and Books would increase literacy. I prefer a hands-on approach to learning."

"Hey there, Hallie, welcome to the next place we need a Deer Crossing sign.' I didn't know that deers could read.'They can in Cosgrove County. It's part of the No Deer Left Behind program."