I’m not saying you have to let your children plant grass on their wall-to-wall carpeting, but I do think that if you want your children to have a joyous, easy relationship with books — and with learning in general — you have to tolerate a certain amount of disorder. You have to let your kids have some control over their environment — and that will probably mean piles of magazines here, lots of sporting equipment over there . . . . Just keep saying to yourself, in eighteen years they’ll go away to college.
Mary Leonhardt in ‘Parents Who Love Reading, Kids Who Don’t‘
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Reading literature from the past is like a clean sea breeze blowing through our musty minds. There’s a refreshing sensation, in reading medieval writing with an open mind, of beginning to uncover things you’ve taken for granted about the world.
– C. S. Lewis
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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
-Hazel Rochman
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To write well, read omnivorously. Those who read constantly tend to write coherently.
– Trish Hall
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Out of school, the child’s work influences him; his playmates affect him more; the example and instruction of his parents form his habits, thought and character to a still greater extent; but more than any one, as much as the three combined, does his time reading shape his destiny.
– Charles H. Sylvester in Journeys Through Bookland (1909)
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Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books — even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome. They seem to tell you that they have got something inside their covers that will be good for you, and that they are willing and desirous to impart to you. Value them much.
– William Gladstone
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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours.
-J. D. Salinger
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A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.
-C.S. Lewis
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Story is the shortest distance between the human heart and truth.
– Ted Dekker
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Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors.
C.S. Lewis in An Experiment in Criticism
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