"The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."

Books, Pleasure, Reading

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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Read much, but not many books."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Books are humanity in print."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

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"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them."

Maurice Sendak, American Artist

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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."

George Orwell, British Author

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"I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

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"Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."

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

"Read much, but not many books."

"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."

"Books are humanity in print."

"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

"You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them."

"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."

"I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something."

"Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind."

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"Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured."

"Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody."

"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."

"Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing."

"Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?"

"People find life entirely too time-consuming."

"The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper."

"In a war of ideas it is people who get killed."

"When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy."

"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet."