Maya Angelou Quotes About Reading

• I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

  Maya Angelou

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Twitter post from Jul 31, 2015

• Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

  Maya Angelou

  Reading, Writing, Giving

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Apr 12, 2013

• 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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Education

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 30, 2015

• The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Children, Book

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jul 06, 2010

• When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

• When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

  Maya Angelou

  Reading, Giving, Looks

  Twitter post from Oct 26, 2016

• Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

  Maya Angelou

  Reading, Writing, Hawthorne

  Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

• For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Reading, Book

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 30, 2010

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