"Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard."

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"Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard."

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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

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"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."

James Madison, American President

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Anne Bronte, British Novelist

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Elizabeth Hardwick, American Critic

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"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

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