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"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."
"I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander."
"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories."
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing."
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
"Don't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books secondhand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read."
"We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read themselves."
"We read to know we’re not alone."