George Horace Lorimer Quotes

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

Reading taught me how to write.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

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

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification.

Reading is a huge part of life.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.