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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

The greatest gift is a 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.

Elizabeth Hardwick

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading.

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Margaret Haddix

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I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.

I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

Thom Gunn

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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

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