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Moses Hadas

"The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."

Moses Hadas, American Writer
Reading, Experience, Knowledge, Passion
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"The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."

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"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."

John Green, American Author
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Amber Hurdle

"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist
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"When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life."

Matthew Donnelly, American Author
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Amber Hurdle

"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist
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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."

Mary Wortley Montagu, English Writer
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"When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist
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Amber Hurdle

"More than a half million books, all of them smelling like dust and ink, two terrible smells that blend mystically to make something beautiful. Powells is another church to me, a paperback sort of heaven."

Donald Miller, American Author
Reading, Books, Knowledge, Joy
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Amber Hurdle

"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet
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"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer
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Amber Hurdle

"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author
Reading, Questions, Variety, Writing

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