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"Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom."

"Education enhances the beauty of the mind by learning to see the beauty in every little thing."

"Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement."

"Literature is life."

"The principal goal of education in schools is to teach students basic knowledge and kindle mindsets that know how to think better and to understand the world in which they live."

"To eradicate blindness, let us create opportunities for everyone to get an education."
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"And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."


"I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting."


"Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life."


"Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves."


"But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art."


"I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature."


"If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work."


"What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older."
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