"One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings."
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"I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say."
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"Libraries are the future of reading."
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"Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious."
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"I didn't get that power from gunz..coz there's no gunz in jail..I got that power from books and from thinking and strategizing...... That's what I want little niggaz to see."
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"Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves."
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"Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures."
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"Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin."
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"My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves in the characters, pictures, and stories. So they resonate."
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"Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every time you walk away from an encounter, your brain has been altered, sometimes permanently."
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"A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul."
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"If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print."
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"Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins"
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"Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people."
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"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."
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"The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves."
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"The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends."
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"I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door."
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"Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go."
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"I hope Anne's book will have an effect on the rest of your life so that insofar as it is possible in your own circumstances, you will work for unity and peace."
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