This is the most important thing about me—I’m a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is sit and read or lie down and read or eat and read or shit and read. I’m a trained reader. I want a job where I get paid for reading books. And I don’t have to make reports on what I read or to apply what I read.

Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book

Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas poster produced by the Office of War Information. This poster features a quote from President Franklin Roosevelt, and it was one in a series.

Credit: Courtesy U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum