Richard Flanagan Quotes

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems... It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.

Becoming a reader grows our horizons, our appetite for the good, the true and the beautiful, and our empathy.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

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.

Read in order to live.

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

I will say I am the sum of my books.