We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. ~ B. F. Skinner

I am a part of everything that I have read. I am a part of everything that I have read. ~ John Kieran ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 2 of 24

‘Tis the reader that makes the good book. ~Emerson ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 3 of 24

We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are. ~Anais Nin ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 4 of 24

All the student’s knowledge about literary history, about authors and periods and literary types, will be so much useless baggage if he has not been led primarily to seek in literature a vital personal experience. ~Rosenblatt ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 5 of 24

If students are truly to learn to read and write, they must witness literacy making a difference, first to themselves, then to others. ~Janet Emig ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 6 of 24

Every child, and the child in every one of us, is ready to plead: Tell me a story. For the role of stories is to explain life, and the good stories, in their very substance and in the structure of their language, become revelation. ~Diane Schoemperlen ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 7 of 24

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. ~Muriel Rukeyser ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 8 of 24

The hardest battle is to be nobody but yourself in a world that is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else. ~E.E. Cummings ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 9 of 24

Inside every fat book is a thin book trying to get out. ~Unknown ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 10 of 24

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. ~Naquib Mahfouz ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 11 of 24

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ~Gilbert Highet ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 12 of 24

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. ~Dr. Seuss ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 13 of 24

Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ~ Bert Williams ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 14 of 24

The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~Marcel Proust ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 15 of 24

I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life. ~Scott Corbett ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 16 of 24

Reader and writer, we wish each other well. Don’t we want and don’t we understand the same thing? A story of beauty and passion, some fresh approximation of human truth? ~Eudora Welty ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 17 of 24

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. ~James Russell Lowell ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 18 of 24

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. ~Dr. Samuel Johnson ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 19 of 24

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 Woolf ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 20 of 24

All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been-- it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. ~Thomas Carlyle ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 21 of 24

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ~Edmund Burke ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 22 of 24

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ~Ray Bradbury ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 23 of 24

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. ~Maya Angelou ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 24 of 24