Why I Read Quotes (4 quotes)

“That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”
― Kelly Marcel & Sue Smith

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“When I pick up a book and read it, I want to be transported. I want to be taken someplace that I didn't quite know existed, so that by the time I close the book, and return to my own reality, my world is expanded and has become a little larger and a little more complicated.”
― Anthony Marra

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“I read in hopes of little sparkling moments that are going to turn my head inside out.”
― Jo Walton, What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction & Fantasy

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“I think fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.

-Imagination & Community Essay”
― Marylinne Robinson

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