Importance Of Reading Quotes - Page 2

• The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.
  Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination - creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words.

  Eric Ripert

  Beautiful, Dream, Reading

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• I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Nature, Book, Reading

  "Dreamtigers". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1960.

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

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Reading, Healing

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

  Daniel Handler

  Educational, Book, Reading

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• The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

  Stephen King

  Real, Lying, Reading

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• We know that children need help to read, and the best time to start them reading is very young. We believe that when children see adults from all walks of life and from throughout the community reading to them, that is another opportunity for children to see the importance of reading.

  Jane Bown

  Children, Believe, Reading

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• Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Reading, Book, Literacy

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• There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.

  Eric Thomas

  Reading, Past, Able

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• Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

  Austin Phelps

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Happiness, Clever

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• Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm sure. It breaks my heart to think that there are kids out there, ready to have their imaginations lit on fire, excited and wanting to read, and facing naked shelves in their school or local libraries. Rather than complain or wait till the system stops failing our nation's children this is a matter I feel we must take into our own hands. There are children, right now, waiting-wanting to read. What shall we tell them>

  Nathan Fillion

  Children, Growing Up, Reading

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• As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Teaching, Reading, Challenges

  "Chang-rae Lee on War, Alienation, and the Power of Reading". Interview with Ru Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

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• I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Thinking, Independent Bookstores

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.119, Ballantine Books

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• My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

  Kevin Gates

  Teacher, Reading, Grandmother

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