“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.”
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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Focus Naturally Broadens
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“Expand the definition of ‘reading’ to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It’s the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won’t read shark books forever.”
~ Jon Scieszka
Five Facts About Reading
Fact 1: Reading can make you a better conversationalist.
Fact 2: Neighbours will never complain that your book is too loud.
Fact 3: Knowledge by osmosis has not yet been perfected. You’d better read.
Fact 4: Books have stopped bullets – reading might save your life.
Fact 5: Dinosaurs didn’t read. Look what happened to them.
The Greatest Luxury
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When You Read a Short Story…
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“When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you.”
~ George Saunders
A Writer’s Take on Reading
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“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”
~ Nora Ephron
Reading: A Guided Meditation
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“Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else, disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and we’re fond of them.”
~ George Saunders
Exercise for the Mind
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“Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.”
~ Richard Steele
Reading Is an Art Form
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“Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.”
~ Edwin Louis Cole
Encore, Encore!
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“Reading should be a repeat performance.”
~ John Barton