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There were pools of light among the stacks, directly beneath the bulbs which Philip had switched on, but it was now with an unexpected fearfulness that he saw how the books stretched away into the...

—Peter Ackroyd

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Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

—Clifton Fadiman

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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

—V. S.

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I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn’t hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren’t about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn’t ravenous just for a newspaper that had no...

—Christopher Hitchens

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This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a...

—Rebecca Solnit

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If you are good, they say you are weak.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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Whether I’m critically well received, whether or not I sell books – of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published – nevertheless, it’s what I do, every day.

—Tama Janowitz

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All those big words produce disgust today.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

—Ross Macdonald

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After all, when you come across the word prothalamium and find it means a preliminary nuptial song and a yaffle is a green woodpecker-well, I ask you! You cannot let matters rest there-or can you?...

—E. Norman

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One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, “The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because...

—Regina Doman

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Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it!

—Carmela Dutra

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No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn’t understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.

—Stanisław Lem

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The book and I secret ourselvesBehind the paneled door.We merge our thoughts in retrospectOf ancient mystic lore.We spend a pleasant quiet hour,Nor know it passed us by…The easy chair, the shaded lamp,A well-loved book and...

—Edna Moore Schultz

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Shara was already an avid reader by then, but she had never realized until that moment what books meant, the possibility they presented: you could protect them forever, store them up like engineers store water,...

—Robert Jackson

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Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so...

—Gabrielle Zevin

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The portraits, of more historical than artistic interest, had gone; and tapestry, full of the blue and bronze of peacocks, fell over the doors, and shut out all history and activity untouched with beauty and...

—W.B. Yeats

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Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and live their writing.:

—Geraldine Solon

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The official recruiting process for their posse began. Because Carlos, Narc, and Trevor each had high SQs, Heeb and Evan reasoned that adding the three to their group would raise the average SQ of each...

—Zack Love

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Eva walked along the wall that held all of Michael’s books. Shelves of science texts – physics, astronomy, a full set of Darwin’s writings, new works in biomedical genetics – these were at the bottom,...

—J.J. Brown

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What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.

—Doug Dorst

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I am clumsy, drop glasses and get drunk on Monday afternoons. I read Seneca and can recite Shakespeare by heart, but I mess up the laundry, don’t answer my phone and blame the world when...

—Charlotte Eriksson

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It is not so much as to say that something has occured; but to describe the very essence of the occurance. One must take hold of his readers and pull them into his world…the world...

—Jason W.

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Reading books would be boring if you lack imagination…

—Himmilicious

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He fed his spirit with the bread of books

—Edwin Markham

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History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

—Holbrook Jackson

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In the dream, Tana’s mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.-Tana-page 21-chapter 4

—Holly Black

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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not some books continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without...

—Francis Bacon

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Most people have a list of 100 books to read before they die, or 100 places to visit. Not me. I have a list of 100 birthdays to see. No need to write them down,...

—Jarod Kintz

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Literature is news that stays news.

—Ezra Pound

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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

—James A. Baldwin

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I’m a miner, and I’m always dirty, because I’m constantly digging. Am I shoveling for gold? Hardly. I’m unearthing this hearty land searching for the next great American novel. If I dig deep enough, I’m...

—Jarod Kintz

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More people are leaving TV behind to read my books than ever before. In the last year alone I gained over two readers (three, to be exact). So I’d like to take a moment and...

—Jarod Kintz

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If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

—François Mauriac

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The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

—Henry David Thoreau

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I’ll bet opening a store called Boobs and Books would increase literacy. I prefer a hands-on approach to learning.

—Jarod Kintz

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Denn ich ohne Bücher bin nicht ich.

—Christa Wolf

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We human beings build houses because we’re alive but we write books because we’re mortal. We live in groups because we’re sociable but we read because we know we’re alone. Reading offers a kind of...

—Daniel Pennac

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It was true; books had saved me in my home remodeling projects, but they fell short in teaching me how to trust my instincts, and how to stop thinking with my educated brain and more...

—Dee Williams

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A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation… A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed...

—Henry Miller

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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

—Gaston Bachelard

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Speak up and speak clearly. I want to hear what you have to say because it matters. Let’s listen to each other and respect one another’s opinions. Although, they may be different, wisdom allows us...

—Felicia Johnson

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While the consequences are often quite hellish, I am absolutely and perhaps permanently against ignoring books recommended from the heart by very nice people and strangers; it is too risky and inhuman; also the consequences...

—J.D. Salinger

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Bazen insan her şeyin sonuna geldiğinde,başından beri öyle olacağını bildiğini anlar.

—Günhan Kuşkanat

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I don’t write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.

—Jean M.

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We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we’d read; you can say something, you don’t have to explain it.

—Kevin Ayers

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Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.

—Guy Browning

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