“Great fiction opens readers’ hearts and, once they are captive and pliant, then opens their minds.”
—Donald Maass
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“Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.”
—Mark Haddon
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“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
—Maya Angelou
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“The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.”
—Anthony Trollope
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“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”
—Henry Ward Beecher
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“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
—Joseph Addison
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“The books that help you most are those which make you think the most.”
—Pablo Neruda
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“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”
—Walt Disney
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“I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.”
— Montesquieu
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“You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
— C.S. Lewis