Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

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Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.

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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

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If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

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I can survive well enough on my own – if given the proper reading material.

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

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

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