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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Books, Open

"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Books, Dignity, Fire, Night

"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."

Stephen King, American Author

Books, Truth, Wisdom, Happiness, Power

"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Books, Poison, Knowledge, Power

"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Books, Reading, Wisdom, Criticism

"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."

Sue Grafton, American Novelist

Books, Formula, Hell, Want

"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."

Bruce Jackson, American Public Servant

Books, Now

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Books, Metaphysics

"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Books, Leisure, Knowledge, Life

"These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important."

Brian P. Cleary, American Author

Books, Kids, Want

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"You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff."

Time

"You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough."

Succeed

"Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you."

Habit

"A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."

Friendship

"What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."

Friendship

"A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends."

Friendship

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."

Trust

"Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber."

People

"Next, in importance to books are their titles."

Books