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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives. -- Malachy McCourt
Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up. -- Jim Lee
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process. -- LeVar Burton
Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued. -- Zig Ziglar
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal! -- Robert Creeley
I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination. -- Breckin Meyer
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress. -- Kate Atkinson
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader. -- Katherine Paterson
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book. -- Anthony Browne
My mom would always read a book to me at night from when I was three. Now, I can't go to sleep without reading a book. At the same time, once I read, it's difficult for me to go to sleep, as I have an overactive imagination and I start thinking. -- Sonam Kapoor
We didn't have all the distractions that young people have today. We didn't have these incredible computer games and social networks to engage with. I understand that. But once young readers do discover reading, when they discover a book which they fall in love with, it really unleashes something new in their imagination. -- Mark Billingham
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others. -- Amy Waldman
My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it. -- Jacob Epstein
When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination. -- Mark Bradford
When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read. -- Malorie Blackman
Reading books would be boring if you lack imagination... -- Himmilicious
Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. -- Lemmy Kilmister
Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free. -- Dan Sanders
The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote. -- Julia Alvarez
I could spend all day lost in someone else's imagination. I love reading. -- Joanna Bolouri
Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on. -- Alex Faickney Osborn
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading. -- Michael Tippett
Reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer's alone. -- Thomas C. Foster
For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing. --
A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence. -- Roger Zelazny
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination. -- Alice Hoffman
It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I find it relaxing. -- Emma Watson
When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong. -- Alexandra Breckenridge
Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath. -- Paul Kropp
I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading. -- Zoe Kazan
Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa. -- Steve Carell
I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing. -- Nicolas Cage

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