"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."

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"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."

Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese Writer

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"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"I read anything that's going to be interesting. But you don't know what it is until you've read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there'll be the making of a novel."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too."Are you, Joe?"Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!"

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"Reading sparks writing."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Reading, Writing, Inspirational, Books

"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody."

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"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."

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