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How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.

Harold Bloom
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There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a library ought to be composed half of books we have read and that have really counted for us, and half of books we propose to read and presume will come to count—leaving a section of empty shelves for surprises and occasional discoveries

Italo Calvino, Why Read the Classics?
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Why do you think people stopped reading? We read to connect with other minds. But why read when you're busy writing, describing the fine-grained flotsam of your own life. Compulsively recording every morsel you eat, that you're cold, or, I don't know, heartbroken by a football game. An endless stream flowing to an audience of everyone and no one.

Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange
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Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized . . .

Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
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I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then why read it?

Franz Kafka
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Books have been vastly important in my life - as both a reader and a writer. I've learned that the great gift of literature is that someone else's tale becomes a chapter of your story. And I still feel books are the best art form for making contact with another consciousness, which is why reading a good book by yourself never feels lonely.

Bob Smith, Treehab: Tales from My Natural, Wild Life
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Why read the current generation of text books when you have the ability to research and write the next generation of text books.

Steven Magee
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Why read fiction when real life can be just as interesting?

LHandLG, Stolen Inheritance - A True Story of Oil, Army and Murder
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I do not understand why reading the Bible in public should make others feel uncomfortable . . . it may be such an example that serves to remind them of the Book they have neglected.

Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
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Does it matter that people and thingsHave words,Have names?If not,Why read any book?A litany of useless lettersDetached from bone, muscle.Or are words the only things that make the muscle, bone, memory, movement,PersonReal?

Stasia Ward Kehoe, Audition
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