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“Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.”

“It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea out of nowhere, and his characters out of nothing, and catch words as they fly, and nail them to the page. The reader has something to go by and somewhere to start from, given to him freely and with great generosity by the writer. And still the reader feels free to find fault.”

“in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It's amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.”

“here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.”

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

“There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.”

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.”

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”