Penelope Lively , English author
said about Importance, Names, Old, Reading, Writing...
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"All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself."
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