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“Reading is how we learn to attach ourselves to ourselves, and to others, and to the world: reading inhabits us with the tendrils of…

— Rick Gekoski

“We are defined not so much by what we're reading, as by what we're reading next.”

— Julia Keller

“Reading is an activity of civilized beings.”

— Toba Beta

“Our use of words defines us.”

— Melissa Harker Ridenour

“Reading means living many lives.”

— William Wyatt

“Reading is one of the important part of being a person.”

— Perry Moore

“Words define us, they explain us, and, on occasion, they serve to control or isolate us.”

— Pip Williams

“Reading is at the heart of everything we do.”

— Saba Idrees

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

— Anonymous

“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being.…

— David L. Ulin

“Reading has shaped me, guided me, reflected me and helped me understand and connect with, and this is not hyperbole, HUMANITY.”

— Annie Spence

“Reading exposes is to the experiences and minds of others, makes us challenge our own provinciality, deepens and widens who we are and what…

— Rick Gekoski