Maya Angelou Quotes About Reading
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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.
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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.
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When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.
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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.
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