What reading taught me was that I…had at least one story that needed to be told…that other people’s stories could speak to me in ways I never imagined…that the story I had to tell could speak to other people in…
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Reading and Writing Connection
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Read a Book, Make a Friend
A book is a special object, a time-tested conveyor of not just information, but emotion and connection. Some of my best friends are books. ~ Seth Godin
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Reading and Creating
As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And,…
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The Book That Sparked My Love of Science Fiction
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne? The Time Machine by H.G. Wells? Brave New World by Aldous Huxley? All great books, but none of these classics was the first to take me away to another world. By 1967,…
Save Your World: Keep Reading
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ~ Ray Bradbury
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When the Magic Comes…
We…don’t know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is to write dutifully and day after day, every day, giving our work the very best of what we are capable. I don’t…
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Reading Inspires Writing
We write by the light of every story we have ever read. ~ Richard Peck Image “Astronaut Floating With Balloons” courtesy of Victor Habbick / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
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