As a kid, I was a big reader. Books and theater were the way I understood the world, … - Greta Gerwig

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Forever - is composed of Nows - 'Tis not a different time. . . Let Months dissolve in further Months - And Years - exhale in Years.

Greta Gerwig

As a kid, I was a big reader. Books and theater were the way I understood the world, and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life. I would read all night. My mom would come into my room and tell me I had to go to sleep, so I would hide books under my bed. At first I had a tough time getting through novels, so I read plays, because a play is generally shorter and has all those tools for getting people hooked early on.

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