Summer Reading Quotes

• There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Reading, Mind

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.190

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• I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.

  Margaret Haddix

  Summer, Fun, Reading

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• When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Summer, Mother, Book

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• I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an outdoor person. I would win the summer reading contest at the library.

  Julianne Moore

  Summer, Reading, Kids

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• LOVE your taste in subject matter... perfect summer reading!

  Mark Hamill

  Summer, Love You, Reading

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• Outstanding high school writers reported extensive summer reading

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Summer, Reading, School

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