“People who don’t read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn’t it?”
The Paris Review interview (1984)
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Eugéne Ionesco59
Romanian playwright 1909–1994Related quotes
Rachel Caine book Glass Houses
Source: You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)
“It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"On the Ignorance of the Learned" <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
“A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.”
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet
As quoted in Writers on Writing (1986) by Jon Winokur, p. 24
“A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.”
Earl Nightingale (1921–1989) American motivational speaker
Source: Lead the Field
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
