"Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books."

Books, Creation, Humanity, Achievement

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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

Books, Imagination, Love, Reading

"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

Books, Reading, Life, Inspirational

"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

Books, Change, Truth, Wisdom, Life

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

John Milton, English Poet

Books, Deep

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

Lloyd Alexander, American Writer

Books, May, Writers

"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

Books, Old, Years

"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

Books, Identity, Imagination, Story

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

Thomas More, English Author

Books, Folly, Woman

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

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

Books, Magic, Imagination, Wonder

"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

Books, Focus, Mind, Questions

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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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"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!"

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

"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."

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

"The spiritual is the parent of the practical."

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

"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."

"The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest."

"Give me a man who sings at his work."

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."

"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects."

"Clever men are good, but they are not the best."

"Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness."