#read

Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#bread #cultivate #desire #feel #fields

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#proofreading #poem

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