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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."
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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."
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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!"
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"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."
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"If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn."
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Personal Development
"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."
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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."
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"My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me."
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"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."
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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."
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"Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing."
Gratitude
"We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself."
Man
"Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book."
Books
"A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect."
Intellectual
"Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it."
Humor
"What is reading, but silent conversation."
Conversation
"A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market."
Worth
"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport."
War
"We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair."
Hair
"I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible."
Old
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