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"One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by." - Jeannette Walls -

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“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” ― Dr. Seuss ―

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 “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” ― Napoléon Bonaparte ―

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“Reading aloud to your children is a gift that will last a lifetime.” ― Maya Angelou ―

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“I feel the need of reading. It is a loss to a man not to have grown up among books.” ― Abraham Lincoln ―  

“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson --

“'Classic' – a book which people praise and don’t read.” ― Mark Twain --

“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.” ― Jules Verne --

“Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.” — Eudora Welty --

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”― Joseph Joubert --

“One sure window into a person’s soul is his reading list.” — Mary B. W. Tabor --

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.” — Annie Proulx --

“The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.” — Ernest Gaines --

“I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.” — Robert Louis Stevenson --

"You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one." -- Unknown --

 "That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” — Jhumpa Lahiri --

 “It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.” – S.I. Hayakawa --

 “Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.”— Mark Haddon -- 

 “No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” — Mary Wortley Montagu --

 “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." -- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood --