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  • Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it. -- Carmen Agra Deedy
  • I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right. -- Nina Bawden
  • I think books with spiritual themes simply point to the deeper mysteries of life - to what lies beyond us, to what's hidden inside of us, or perhaps to an understanding of what truly matters. -- Sue Monk Kidd
  • No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes. -- Avi Arad
  • I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it. -- Henning Mankell
  • It's so important as a creative person to go out and look for things. Go to galleries, talk to people, read books. Yes, you can just type something into Google, but if you read and interact, you'll have a deeper understanding of the world. -- Nicola Formichetti
  • I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess. -- Magnus Carlsen
  • I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are. -- Wynton Marsalis
  • Books have always a secret influence on the understanding. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society. -- Carl Sagan
  • Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity. -- Christopher Paolini
  • A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use. -- Frances Osborne
  • Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books. -- Guy Browning
  • Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay. -- Joan Erikson
  • Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people. -- Ellen Douglas
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