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“So I say to you read! Read! Something will stick in the mind, be diligent and good will come of it.”

— Sarah Vowell

“Since when does reading suck? Who says that? If I ran the world, people who didn’t read would be the first to go. Boom.…

— Skyla Madi

“I read. You know? Some people do it to learn things. People who read are eighty-five percent less likely to commit crimes.” “You must…

— Sarah Harian

“Reading can only take you so far, up to the moment where you must take action with your own hands”

— Rae Carson

“When we read, we are spying on someone else’s imagination and inhabiting it; the authors and their characters are momentarily our friends, even if…

— Pamela Paul

“I have to write, as if I were carrying out a punishment. And the greatest punishment is to know that whatever I write will…

— Fernando Pessoa

“People who do not read have no advantage over those who can not read.”

— Mark Twain

“They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people…

— William Gaddis

“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read,…

— Samuel Johnson

“I know there are readers in the world, as well as many other good people in it, who are no readers at all, who…

— Laurence Sterne

“If you feel you belong to things as they are, you won’t hold up anyone in the alley no matter how hungry you may…

— Nelson Algren

“You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.”

— Don Roff