Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Reading
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The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.
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In reading we must become creators.
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Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.
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A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
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In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become a creator, imagining the setting of the story, visualizing the characters, seeing facial expressions, hearing the inflection of voices. The author and the reader "know" each other; they meet on the bridge of words.
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