"Illiteracy is simply the inability to read and write."

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"Illiteracy is simply the inability to read and write."

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"Fight against illiteracy."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Literacy, Illiteracy, Fight, Education, Awareness

"A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it. It won't do the work for you. To read a good novel well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it-everything short of writing it, in fact. Reading is a collaboration, an act of participation. No wonder not everybody is up to it."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Literacy, Reading, Participation, Effort, Art

"Don't let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even if it's a moronic proclamation by the Emperor. Words have their impact, girl. Mind your manners. I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing."

Gregory Maguire, American Novelist

Literacy, Word, Power, Influence, Truth

"Don't you think it's better to continue reading than to just close the book?"

Rebecca McNutt, Canadian Author

Literacy, Curiosity, Reading, Persistence, Engagement

"If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write."

Joyce Rachelle, Filipino Author

Literacy, Learning, Reading, Walking, Writing

"Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of and unimagined?"

Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author

Literacy, Propaganda, Media, Influence

"Illiterate people should only be charged for the photographs, when buying a newspaper."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Literacy, Truth, Humor, Wisdom, Power

"I felt convinced that however it might have been in former times, in the present stage of the world, no man's faculties could be developed, no man's moral principle be enlarged and liberal, without an extensive acquaintance with books."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author

Literacy, Books, Education, Knowledge, Growth

"Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma."

Ally Carter, American Novelist

Literacy, Reading, Youth, Community, Habit

"Why is it these days that so many people hate reading? Some people won't even touch a newspaper or magazine. It isn't television that kills reading, or cinema or radio, or even those accursed little things known as video games. People used to read all the time, but when the century shifted subtly, somewhere along the way, people forgot how to imagine. When did it happen? At what point? Who or what is to blame? Maybe it's just because the world has become so cold and scientific and shallow in recent years."

Rebecca McNutt, Canadian Author

Literacy, Reading, Imagination, Culture, Decline

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"Fight against illiteracy."

"Don't let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even if it's a moronic proclamation by the Emperor. Words have their impact, girl. Mind your manners. I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing."

"Don't you think it's better to continue reading than to just close the book?"

"If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write."

"Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of and unimagined?"

"Illiterate people should only be charged for the photographs, when buying a newspaper."

"I felt convinced that however it might have been in former times, in the present stage of the world, no man's faculties could be developed, no man's moral principle be enlarged and liberal, without an extensive acquaintance with books."

"Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma."

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"When we overemphasise miracles we are saying people could get something without qualification and merit."

"For every natural law inherent in creation, there is the creator's precision."

"When you focus on diligence and hard work miracle will come to you."

"The most frustrating thing about our doctrine in the modern church is that the unbelievers who have never been to church, the agnostics, those who are out rightly atheist, don't have to fight with whether they are supposed to dominate the earth or not, they just go ahead and do it."