Reading Quotes for Your Bulletin Board
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:
“The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.” Walter Savage Landor
“It is with books as with men, a very small number play a great part: the rest are confounded with the multitude.” Voltaire
“Books never annoy; they cost little, and they are always at hand, and ready at your call.” William Cobbett
“When others fail him, the wise man looks to the sure companionship of books.” Andrew Lang
“One can be amused or excited by a book that one’s intellect simply refused to take seriously.” George Orwell
“We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.” Robert Coover
“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
“The novel is something that never was before and will not be again.” Eudora Welty
“People who don’t read are brutes.” Eugene Ionesco
“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be different.” Denis Donoghue
“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
