"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it."

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

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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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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"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

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"Explorers have to be ready to die lost."

Russell Hoban, American Novelist

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"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."

Elizabeth Hardwick, American Critic

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life."

Louisa May Alcott, American Novelist

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"Kindle, isn't it? the waitress asked. "I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I'm reading my way through all of Jodi Picoult's books. "Oh, probably not all of them, Wesley said. "Huh? Why not? "She's probably got another one done already. That's all I meant. "And James Patterson's probably written one since he got up this morning! she said, and went off chortling."

Stephen King, American Author

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

"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

"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."

"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read."

"Explorers have to be ready to die lost."

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"I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell."

"The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis."

"Let's face it, writing is hell."

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"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it."