Quotes of the month - January

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” 
― James Baldwin

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. 
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.” 
― William Faulkner

“Books to the ceiling, 
Books to the sky, 
My pile of books is a mile high. 
How I love them! How I need them! 
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.” 
― Arnold Lobel  This is our house.

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