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Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to...

—Robert Goolrick

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Peter Pan has to be the book of my childhood. Come to think of it, it’s the book of my adulthood too. It’s a book which, in the reading of it, takes me back to...

—Clive Barker

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In our fathers’ time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

—Roger Ascham

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Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you’re just ready to get that baby out!

—Carmen DeSousa

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Since the time of Voltaire and two-chamber Government, which is at bottom simply distrust and personal self-examination, and gives the popular mind that bad habit of being suspicious, the Church of France seems to have...

—Voltaire

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She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost – lost in a world of her own....

—E.M. Delafield

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He began to read at haphazard. He entered upon each system with a little thrill of excitement, expecting to find in each some guide by which he could rule his conduct; he felt himself like...

—W. Somerset

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Kwa sababu ya udadisi wa hali ya juu nasoma kila kitu ninachokutana nacho hasa vile visivyonipendeza. Ukitaka kupata maarifa usisome tu vitabu vinavyokupendeza. Soma vitabu visivyokupendeza.

—Enock Maregesi

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Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]

—To Kill

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Sono convinto che chi non legge resta uno stupido. Anche se nella vita sa destreggiarsi, il fatto di non ingerire regolarmente parole scritte lo condanna ineluttabilmente all’ignoranza, indipendentemente dai suoi averi e dalle sue attività.

—Edward Bunker

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I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where...

—Eudora Welty

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I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a...

—Frazier Glenn

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Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.

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She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

—Frances Hodgson

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Have you thought of an ending?””Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant.””Oh, that won’t do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily...

—J.R.R. Tolkien

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I don’t want to be a vampire’ she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.-Tana Bach-page 29-chapter 4

—Holly Black

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If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

—Chuck Palahniuk

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Good stories take your imagination to anywhere

—Cy Campanati

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

—Francis Bacon

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We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour....

—Eleanor Brown

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Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and enjoyed my dinner in silence.

—Jarod Kintz

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Whether it’s books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.

—Emeril Lagasse

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An extrovert looks at a stack of books and sees a stack of papers, while an introvert looks at the same stack and sees a soothing source of escape.

—Eric Samuel

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they’re simple stories. Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same rules, you know. . . It’s just that...

—Chris Wooding

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Objects and ObjectivesTo contemplate LEGO. Many colours. Many shapes. Many inventive and useful shapes. Plastic. A versatile and practical substance. Symbolic of the resourcefulness of man. Oil taken from the depths of the very earth....

—Jay Woodman

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Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.

—Jack London

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Reading relaxes me.

—Elizabeth Newton

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Parents who daily read Robert Lewis Stevenson to their children and surrounds them with blocks, plastic animals, and some cardboard boxes or kitchen pots and pans are going to produce a qualitatively different child from...

—Diane Medved

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People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there...

—Diane Setterfield

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A friendship with the Lord will sustain you in difficult times.

—Elizabeth George

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Knocking on a door is so violent. Instead, try talking to the door to get it to open up to you. I should write a self-help book for door-to-door salesmen.

—Jarod Kintz

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It is only by choice that our true nature is revealed.

—J.D. Netto

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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

—Jack Vance

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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

—Joseph Joubert

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I wanted to know what it was like to be a drug addict, and have an eating disorder, and have a loved one die, and fall in love. I saw my friends going through these...

—Jackson Pearce

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Books on the bookshelvesAnd stacked on the floorBooks kept in basketsAnd propped by the doorBooks in neat pilesAnd in disarrayBooks tucked in closetsAnd books on displayBooks filling cranniesAnd books packed in nooksBooks massed in windowsAnd...

—L.R. Knost

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We read privately, mentally listening to the author’s voice and translating the writer’s thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.

—Lynne Truss

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Now may this little Book a blessing beTo those that love this little Book, and me:And may its Buyer have no cause to say,His money is but lost, or thrown away.

—John Bunyan

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I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z.But this was different.I read [in, Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot]: This is one moment, /...

—Jeanette Winterson

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Timing is always off. Someone is always late, always lost, always looking back to the start of a reality that they didn’t want to begin with.

—Leigh Hershkovich

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Books are my greatest treasure.

—Lailah Gifty Akita

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Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

—Joe Queenan

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My bookcase is all yours.”I walked to the door. “I’ve just decided that those are my favorite five words in the world.

—Kasie West

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Read good books to improve yourself.

—Lailah Gifty Akita

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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then...

—Leo Tolstoy

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Your story must told.Live a life legacy- written book or notes.This will be there for many generations to know your rich experiences and knowledge.

—Lailah Gifty Akita

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I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my...

—Joshua Slocum

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Another thing I need to do, when I’m near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it…Somehow the book doesn’t leave you when you’re asleep right next to it.

—Joan Didion

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She’d felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self.

—Marie Rutkoski

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