"The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat."

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Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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Anthony Burgess, English Novelist

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Donald Miller, American Author

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"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."

"When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life."

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

"Read in order to live."

"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."

"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."

"Reading sparks writing."

"When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience."

"More than a half million books, all of them smelling like dust and ink, two terrible smells that blend mystically to make something beautiful. Powells is another church to me, a paperback sort of heaven."

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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor."

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"It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep."

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