“Literacy is inseparable from opportunity, and opportunity is inseperable from freedom. The freedom promised by literacy is both freedom from - from ignorance, oppression, poverty - and freedom to - to do new things, to make choices, to learn.”
“It’s always encouraging to be told that it is intellectually acceptable to read the sorts of things that you like to read anyway.”
Source: In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
“الامه التي لا يشعر كلها واكثرها بالم الاستبداد لا تستحق الحريه”
Source: وأنقذتنا الصفحات: حكايات من ونس الكتب
“Stories are the wealth of humanity!”
Source: Iron Gold
“Reading," he says, "is always this: there is a thing that is there, a thing made of writing, a solid material object, which cannot be changed, and through this thing we measure ourselves against something else that is not present, something else that belongs to the immaterial, invisible world, because it can only be thought, imagined, or because it was once and is no longer, past, lost, unattainable, in the land of the dead...."
"Or that is not present because it does not yet exist, something desire, feared, possible or impossible," Ludmilla says. "Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be....”
Source: If on a winter's night a traveler
“I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.”
Source: Virginia Woolf
“I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it."
[Patrick Ness slams library cuts (The Guardian, 23 June 2011)]”
“Reading...is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources.”
Source: How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
“My brother was one of the bigger influences in my life, in as much as he told me I didn't have to read the choice of books that I as recommended at school, and that I could go out to the library and go and choose my own, and sort of introduced me to authors that I wouldn't have read.probably. You know, the usual things like the Jack Kerouacs, the Ginsbergs, the ee Cummings and stuff.”
“الشخص الذي لا يفارق بيئته التي نشأ فيها ولا يقرا غير الكتب التي تدعم معتقدات الموروثة، لا تنتظر منه ان يكون محايداً.”
Source: وأنقذتنا الصفحات: حكايات من ونس الكتب