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"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."

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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Books, Dignity, Fire, Night

"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Books, Poison, Knowledge, Power

"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Books, Reading, Wisdom, Criticism

"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."

Sue Grafton, American Novelist

Books, Formula, Hell, Want

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

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Books, Metaphysics

"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Books, Leisure, Knowledge, Life

"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

Books, End, Nothing, Study

"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind."

James Russell Lowell, American Poet

Books, Bees, Mind

"I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Books, Past, Years

"I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Books, Fiction, Escape, Reality

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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

Man, Victims

"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."

Money, People, Children, Clothes

"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

Death, Success, Being

"For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine."

Truth, Swine

"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."

Christian, Christ, Quiet

"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."

Death, History, Opinion, Public

"Opinions have vested interests just as men have."

Man, Men, Opinions

"What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth."

Faith,

"The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion."

Family, Religion, Health, Money

"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."

Doubt, Man, Will, Writing