"Reading is not optional."

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Source : Walter Dean Myers (2013). “Tags”, p.18, Harper Collins

Walter Dean Myers

#Reading Quotes

“Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.”
“I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.”
“When I was deciding to fight, the thought of winning or losing didn't bother me.”
“I expect the best and with God's help will attain the best.”
“It's weird - I don't feel like I'm a better or more confident writer because I'm publishing something. I think, for most writers as well, it's like reinventing the wheel every time. I have no idea what I'm doing writing a novel, and in some ways, it's the only way to do it.”

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“And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters”
“It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.”
“Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.”

Source : Olive Schreiner (1924). “The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920”, Hyperion Pr

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