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"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."

Helen Dunmore, British Poet

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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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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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"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."

Joseph Epstein, American Writer

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"I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble."

Boris Becker, German Athlete

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"Hard writing makes easy reading."

Wallace Stegner, American Novelist

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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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"Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it."

Jean Paul, German Author

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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem."

Perception

"Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it."

Performance

"If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?"

Time

"We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age."

Age

"I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy."

Work

"Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it."

Love

"I still have nightmares about taking tests."

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"First of all, I try to be a positive role model."

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"It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards."

People

"When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards."

Time