Aliteracy Quotes

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

Jane Austen

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

Mark Twain

"In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody."

Oscar Wilde

"She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books."

Hilda van Stockum, The Borrowed House

"May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating."

Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

"I blinked at her, suddenly loathing her to the depths of my soul. Not only was she probably rather evil, and definitely thoroughly unpleasant, but she also didn't read."

Nicole Peeler