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" I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. " - David Antin

" My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colorful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write. " - Alexander McCall Smith

" I don’t read books much. " - LeBron James

" The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, ‘This is how you do this.’ They’re not taught about why you do this. " - Rick Baker

" Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we’re spending more and getting less. " - Tom Golisano

" Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error. " - Margaret Atwood

" To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. " - Plato

" I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had. " - Randy Travis

" I’m working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write. " - Mal Peet

" The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them. " - Tom Stoppard