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And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

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...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them, talk to them about what they're reading, and make time for this by turning off the television set ourselves. Libraries are a critical tool to help parents do this.

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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

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A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

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It is with a good book as it is with good company.

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The comic-book industry today is not what it was back then, unfortunately. Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don't have to pay attention to what's going on in the world around them.

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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

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I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

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He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.

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We read often with as much talent as we write.

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I was very aware of the fact that there are a lot of comics out there that I love, because I've grown up my whole life reading comics and I know every little nuance of the language and all the implications.

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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

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