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"Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while." - Malorie Blackman


"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” - Henry David Thoreau


"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads." - Ralph Waldo Emerson


"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.” - B. F. Skinner


"Some books leave us free and some books make us free.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


"If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.” – Roald Dahl


"Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.” - Ezra Pound


"If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” - J. K. Rowling


"A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.” - David Sedaris


"There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all.” – Jacqueline Kennedy


"Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work." - Khaled Hosseini


"Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” – Harry Truman


"A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others." - Abraham Lincoln


"Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” - Mary Schmich


"Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.” - Rainer Maria Rilke


"Reading for me, is spending time with a friend.” – Gary Paulsen


"A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth.” - Andre Dubus


"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.” - Robertson Davies


"She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” – Annie Dillard


"We read to know we are not alone." – C.S. Lewis


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