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		My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sarah Dessen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Gilbert 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pablo Neruda 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zoe Kravitz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Paloma Faith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Frances McDormand 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Zoe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				G. M. Trevelyan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vince Gill 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Candace Bushnell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vince Cable 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karen Joy Fowler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Naomi Klein