"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn."

Lloyd Alexander, American Writer

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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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"I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction."

Tahereh Mafi, Iranian Author

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"My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me."

Thomas More, English Author

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"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

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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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"Books are a narcotic."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."

"I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers."

"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"

"If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn."

"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."

"My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me."

"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."

"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."

"Books are a narcotic."

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"Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think."

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