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I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.

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Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be br...more

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Evere since I was first to read, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence...more

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Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

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I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or be read to.

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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up ...more