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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

— Margaret Atwood

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

— Garth Nix

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

— Rick Riordan

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

— Candace Bushnell

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That's about the most you can do, I think.

— Terry McMillan

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

— Judy Blume

What I've learned is that you get better at writing by writing, and that 'youthful energy' will only get you so far.

— Lynn Coady

It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, 'Read,' but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, 'Don't read, don't think, just write,' and the result could be a mountain of drivel.

— Alice Munro

✗Opposing Perspectives

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

— Mark Haddon

Readers have always read high and low, and to fight that urge is to fight the freedom inherent in the act of reading itself. The only arguments that have any traction, as best as I can see it, are about whether the genre classification of 'young adult' should exist at all.

— Eliot Schrefer