Anne FadimanIf you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.
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I love reading and I always wanted to write, but never had the time. So, I read a lot and some of the books that I read inspired me to write. When I first started reading it wasn’t until I met my husband that we started talking about books and writing. He encouraged me to write and we became very good friends.
We had a lot of fun together and we had a lot of discussions about books and writing. This quote really hit home for me because I still read a lot of books today.
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