Reading

The Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right not to read.

2. The right to skip pages.

3. The right not to finish.

4. The right to reread.

5. The right to read anything.

6. The right to escapism.

7. The right to read anywhere.

8. The right to browse.

9. The right to read aloud.

10. The right not to defend your tastes.

~ Daniel Pennac

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You might ask which came first - the writer or the reader? That's ridiculous. You can't read anything unless something is written. Plus neither of them came first - the storyteller came first. 

Plus primordial ooze came before all of that.