Here are some quotes about reading that you can add to a bulletin board
or anywhere in your ELA classroom. Enjoy.
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry." Emily Dickinson
"'Tis the good reader that makes the good book." Emerson
"There were no books that showed what was going on with teenagers. I wrote The Outsiders because I wanted to read it." S.E. Hinton
"The moment of change is the only poem." Adrienne Rich
"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out." Dylan Thomas
"Literature is no one's private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves." Virginia Wolf
"If you think reading is boring, you're doing it wrong."
"She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live." Annie Dillard
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." Frederick Douglas
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you will go." Dr. Seuss
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." Oscar Wilde
"I think that when you can escape into a book, it trains your imagination to think big and to think that more can exist than what you see." Taylor Swift
"Sleep is good, he said, and books are better." George R.R. Martin
"Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism." Malala Yousafzai
"The ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive." Malcolm X
"The man who does not read good books has no
advantage over the man who cannot read them."
Mark Twain
