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• ‟ We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

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• ‟ I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.

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• ‟ I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

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• ‟ I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

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• ‟ One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.

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