#read

I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk. ↗

— James D. Sass

#noremorse #read #reading #satan

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. ↗

— Joan Didion

#storytelling #storytelling

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#survival #survival

Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace. ↗

— Voltaire

#enlightenment

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#dreadful #integrity #knowledge #useless #weak

Only the nonreader fears books. ↗

— Richard Peck

#censorship #reading #censorship

To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. ↗

— Claude Adrien Helvétius

#censorship #reading #censorship

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us. ↗

— Katherine Paterson

#censorship #reading #censorship

Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#censoring #reading #censorship

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'? ↗

— Joseph Henry Jackson

#censorship #reading #censorship