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I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books. -- Mark Billingham
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. -- Mark Ruffalo
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. -- Lynda Barry
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. -- Malcolm X
I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk. -- Chelsea Cain
I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries. -- Adriana Trigiani
I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight. -- Nikki Grimes
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. -- Rodney Dangerfield
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. -- Samuel Johnson
My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading. -- Julianne Moore
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. -- Rita Dove
I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. -- Karin Slaughter
My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work, was evenly split between American, Canadian, Australian and British authors. -- Eleanor Catton
I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was around nine years old when I began choosing my own books in earnest. -- Adriana Trigiani
I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. -- Jose Saramago
I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons. -- Dale T. Mortensen
When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it. -- Richard P. Feynman
The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun. -- James Patterson
One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA. -- Jessye Norman
Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a reading device, a library card and an Internet connection. In this new reality, the only incentive to buy, rather than borrow, an e-book is the fact that the lent copy vanishes after a couple of weeks. -- Scott Turow
I spent my life in the library reading books. -- Michael Caine
Access to a school library results in more reading. -- Stephen D. Krashen
There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment. -- Alisa Valdes
Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer. -- J. Lynn
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. -- John Quincy Adams
Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization. -- Ray Bradbury
I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink. -- Pete McCarthy
My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity -- Malcolm X
OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything. -- Gary D. Schmidt
I was in a convenience store, reading a magazine. The clerk told me, "this is not a library!" "OK! I will talk louder, then!" -- Mitch Hedberg
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library." -- Austin Kleon
Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading. -- Nikola Tesla
A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Web. -- Julie Andrews
Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good. -- Daniel Handler
Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good. -- Daniel Handler
When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void. -- Piers Anthony
She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence. -- Nicholas Sparks
My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign. -- David Mamet
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. -- Daniel Handler
I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare. -- Robin Hobb

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