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II am a part of am a part of everything that I have everything that I have
read.read.~ John Kieran
©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 2 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 The universe is universe is
made of made of stories, not stories, not of atoms.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