Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author’s world.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

I’ve just always been a reader.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we’re ever likely to do that is by going into space.

I teach children to be winners.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Nature has always had more force than education.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Just be a cool grandpa who’s creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Books are sharks… because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

I hardly went to school.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.