The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading.
As quoted in "Bradbury Still Believes in Heat of ‘Fahrenheit 451’" http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930312&slug=1689996, interview by Misha Berson, in ', credited to "Ray Bradbury, quoted by Misha Berson in Seattle Times", in "Quotable Quotes", The Reader's Digest, Vol. 144, No. 861, January 1994, p. 25 http://books.google.com/books?output=html&id=ZqqUAAAAIAAJ&q=%22people+to+stop+reading%22#search_anchor), or an indirect reference to the re-quoting in Reader's Digest (such as: The Times Book of Quotations (Philip Howard, ed.), 2000, Times Books and HarperCollins, p. 93
Variant: We're not teaching kids to read and write and think. … There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
As quoted in "At 80, Ray Bradbury Still Fighting the Future He Foresaw" http://www.raybradbury.com/articles_peoria.html, interview by Roger Moore, in The Peoria Journal Star (August 2000)
Kontext: The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us – it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. … You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
„Ein Klassiker ist ein Buch, das die Leute loben, aber nicht lesen.“
Following the Equator, chapter XXV
Original engl.: »Classic.« A book which people praise and don't read."
Following the Equator
„Ein Klassiker ist ein Buch, das die Leute loben, aber nicht lesen.“
Following the Equator
Flaubert's Parrot
handelsblatt.com http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/raubein-glos;946759
spiegel.de http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/wunderbar/0,1518,609573,00.html
Sudelbücher
Quelle: Sudelbücher Heft G (150)
