“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”
J. D. Salinger
“A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.”
Mark Twain
“I read that script. It's one of the most disgusting, foul things I've seen -- by any illiterate retard -- in a long time. There's no limit to how low some people will go to write something to make money.”
Lou Reed
“A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.”
Gore Vidal
“The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.”
William Blum
“Ignorance and illiteracy are obviously not synonymous; even illiterate masses can cast their ballots with intelligence, once they are informed.”
William Orville Douglas
