"The true university of these days is a collection of books."

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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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"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."

John Milton, English Poet

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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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"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world."

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"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."

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"The spiritual is the parent of the practical."

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"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."

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"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five."

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"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."

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"Endurance is patience concentrated."

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"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."

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