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“Learning is Messy.”
― Eleanor Duckworth

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
― Ezra Pound

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis