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I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as…

— Ann M. Martin

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

— Ann Brashares

Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought somebody the…

— Valerie Bertinelli

A book consists of two layers: on top, the readable layer ... and underneath, a layer that was inaccessible. You only sense its existence…

— Marguerite Duras

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their…

— Ben Okri

The thought of buying a gift and wrapping is too much of an effort for me.

— Gauri Khan

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

— Charles Bukowski

“The skill, the art of literacy is a gift. To read is to watch in your mind as a single word explodes into a…

— Stephen Cosgrove

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose…

— Erik Larson

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand…

— John Locke

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

— Neil Gaiman