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I am a book lover. I buy, collect and read books.

A lot of people who read my novel 'Smog City' ask me why I never killed off either of the two main characters. To be honest, it's because I've given them life. Not literally of course, but since I spent so much time developing and creating my characters, they've ended up with complex personalities, in fact they're almost sentient in a way, and to write them off as dead would be like killing a close friend to me.

Rebecca McNutt

Loosers want it but only through the easy way. If action taking were like reading a story book, loosers would only love to open the picture pages

Israelmore Ayivor

The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.

Kelseyleigh Reber

I’m addicted to words. The only way to get my fix is to write and read.

K.D. Green

Every child deserves to be a boat cast out in a sea of books.

K. Lamb

Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book.

K. Lamb

Later that night though, as I stayed awake into the early hours of morning devouring the second novel in a series, I understood what it meant to befriend a book. The books knew me, far better than I knew them; they knew my fears, my doubts, my dreams. They gave words to feelings I did not even realize I experienced. They listened. They consoled. They kept me company. The books gave me a life outside of my own.

Kelseyleigh Reber

Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, "It is the trade entering his body." The art must enter the body, too.

Annie Dillard

There is more to hear in what is not said.

Joyce Rachelle

Reading is learning: Secure Future and earnings

Syed Sohail Ahmed

I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future.

Debasish Mridha

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

Emil M. Cioran

Great souls, Great stories.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.

Kamand Kojouri

I am what I have ever read

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourselfand let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story.Let your very identity be your book.Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody.

Charlotte Eriksson

Self education is holy mission.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We ought to read daily.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading illuminates our path with the brightest light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

There are many things to learn, when will I finish?

Lailah Gifty Akita

You will create yourself with continuous self-education.

Lailah Gifty Akita

There are so many books to read. What a paradise!

Lailah Gifty Akita

The first story to read is the Biblical stories.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I have travel to sacred places through the pages of books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Read enough books to build your sacred soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.

Deanna Vasquez

There are hard days to live. You awake to a day when you feel you've done it all before, and you're going to do it again, so why do it at all.

Carew Papritz

Often we read to strengthen our beliefs but not to think.

Debasish Mridha

With diligent practice, you will be an expert.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you wish to find the strength of being, read the Holy Bible.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself staggered by how much they have read, how creatively they think and how curiously bullshit-resistant they are. Because of the subjects I write about, I am often contacted by young people and I see it as a part of my job to reply to all of them - and doing so has confirmed a suspicions I’ve had for some time. I think that the generation about to hit adulthood is going to be rather brilliant.Young people getting older is not, in itself, a fascinating new cultural trend. Nonetheless the encroaching adulthood and the people who grew up in a world where expanding technological access collided with the collapse of the neoliberal economic consensus is worth paying attention to. Because these kids are smart, cynical and resilient, and I don’t mind saying that they scare me a little.

Laurie Penny

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.

Stacey T. Hunt

As a citizen of the world, it’s my instinct to keep the fallen and the suffering in my thoughts... You see, in my mind there is logic to it: do no harm, prevent harm, help, support, care for the harmed, face the harmer. My stupid idealist conscience considers sympathy, not pity, at its worst, the most basic and the least negotiable civil duty. Of course as a citizen of the world, I should strive to do more. That said, I am only a man and so I often do the least.

Asaad Almohammad

I’ve been told that I cannot change shit, so I might as well stop torturing myself. My emotions are ridiculed and branded as childish. I have been told that the world has given up on my people. I have been told, and realise that on many occasions, I myself am viewed as an outcast by some of those suffering. I’ve been confronted and my answer is always the same: I care even in my most fucked-up moments. I care even when gates of shit pour open to drown me; I care because I am a citizen of the world.

Asaad Almohammad

For I’m neither a submitter nor a hating retaliator, I acknowledge the boundaries of my existence; yet, I still care. I care regardless of the way they choose to reduce me to the brand that is the birthmark of the accident of my conception. I care less about what that brand signifies in terms of my character, potential, and intentions. For the harmed I care. For the real victims. It’s the most basic of my mandatory civil duties. Only in caring, am I a citizen of the world.

Asaad Almohammad

For some reason, notwithstanding the alienation and utter rejection, I consider myself a global citizen. They say misery calls for company and I’ve always been a man of funerals. The companion of the misfortunate, until they are not!

Asaad Almohammad

As a citizen of the world, it’s my instinct to keep the fallen and the suffering in my thoughts. The human brain fascinates me; its limitless bounds of empathy. You see, in my mind there is logic to it: do no harm, prevent harm, help, support, care for the harmed, face the harmer. My stupid idealist conscience considers sympathy, not pity, at its worst, the most basic and the least negotiable civil duty. Of course as a citizen of the world, I should strive to do more. That said, I am only a man and so I often do the least.

Asaad Almohammad

If the bible be true, God commanded his chosen people to destroy men simply for the crime of defending their native land. They were not allowed to spare trembling and white-haired age, nor dimpled babes clasped in the mothers' arms. They were ordered to kill women, and to pierce, with the sword of war, the unborn child. 'Our heavenly Father' commanded the Hebrews to kill the men and women, the fathers, sons and brothers, but to preserve the girls alive. Why were not the maidens also killed? Why were they spared? Read the thirty-first chapter of Numbers, and you will find that the maidens were given to the soldiers and the priests. Is there, in all the history of war, a more infamous thing than this? Is it possible that God permitted the violets of modesty, that grow and shed their perfume in the maiden's heart, to be trampled beneath the brutal feet of lust? If this was the order of God, what, under the same circumstances, would have been the command of a devil? When, in this age of the world, a woman, a wife, a mother, reads this record, she should, with scorn and loathing, throw the book away. A general, who now should make such an order, giving over to massacre and rapine a conquered people, would be held in execration by the whole civilized world. Yet, if the bible be true, the supreme and infinite God was once a savage.

Robert G. Ingersoll

We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.

V.C. Andrews

A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book.

K. Lamb

Invest your money and time acquiring knowledge for yourself... and the good news is that as you do so, you keep your children and grandchildren and unborn generations enlightened by what you have already learnt!

Israelmore Ayivor

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

Astrid Lindgren

Rear your children in light and truth. Teach them to pray while they are young. Read to them from the scriptures even though they may not understand all that you read. Teach them to pay their tithes and offerings on the first money they ever receive. Let this practice become a habit in their lives. Teach your sons to honor womanhood. Teach your daughters to walk in virtue. Accept responsibility in the Church, and trust in the Lord to make you equal to any call you may receive. Your example will set a pattern for your children. Reach out in love to those in distress and need.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Find children in your neighborhood,Teach them to read and writeTake them out of the darkness,Into the light

Charmaine J.Forde

Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.

Amit Kalantri

You must go to the school or to the books or on the field because knowledge doesn't come to you, you must go to the knowledge.

Amit Kalantri

Today I am leading because yesterday I was reading.

Amit Kalantri

Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Read when you can.Teach when you ought.Learn when you must.Apply when you should.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Education costs an arm and a leg, but ignorance costs you your mind and your soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.

Matshona Dhliwayo

One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities.

Julie Anne Peters

If I have nothing but life and books, I have everything.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless sex positions, and, an author or two.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in 'infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, polymorphously perverse,' and that conscious attention, on the other, was a 'libidinal hypercathexis' -- by which magic phrases they seemed to mean that writing and reading, or telling and listening, were literally ways of making love.

John Barth

Read "The Story of O." Convince yourself that it was in fact written by a woman or someone who thinks like a woman.

Whitney Otto

Failure is a teacher. It teaches what you ought to learn.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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