I’m always on the lookout for thought-provoking ideas in the form of quotes. I use them for bulletin boards, for classroom posters and to give to students for them to paraphrase and discuss. Here’s a short selection of quotes about reading for you to consider as you decorate your classroom:<\/p>\n
“The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.” Walter Savage Landor<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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“It is with books as with men, a very small number play a great part: the rest are confounded with the multitude.” Voltaire<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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“Books never annoy; they cost little, and they are always at hand, and ready at your call.” William Cobbett<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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“When others fail him, the wise man looks to the sure companionship of books.” Andrew Lang<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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“One can be amused or excited by a book that one’s intellect simply refused to take seriously.” George Orwell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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“We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.” Robert Coover<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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“To read a book properly is to wake up and live, to acquire a renewed interest in one’s neighbors, more especially those who are alien to us in every way.” Henry Miller<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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“The novel is something that never was before and will not be again.” Eudora Welty<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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“People who don’t read are brutes.” Eugene Ionesco<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be different.” Denis Donoghue<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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“There is nothing more disgusting than the taste of a rotten book and nothing like the taste of a good book; nothing like it, nothing.” Philip Roth<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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