"Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illite...

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I guess there are never enough books.

More John Steinbeck quotes
"The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, comp...
"Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean ...
"...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, craw...
"Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s ...
"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.