"I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading."

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"With a book he was regardless of time."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."

Stephen King, American Author

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"A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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