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• All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Truth, Reading, Writing

  Esquire, Dec. 1934

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• Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

  Anatole France

  Motivational, Education, Library

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  Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

  David Bowie

  Reading, Oxford, Long

  "FMO’s Final Interview With David Bowie". Interview with Johnnny, fmobserver.com. March 4, 2016.

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• A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

  Julia Alvarez

  Doe, Literature, Tables

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• But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful. They take up room? Of course they do: they are an environment; atoms, not bits. My books are not dead weight, they are live weight — matter infused by spirit, every one of them, even the silliest. They do not block the horizon; they draw it. They free me from the prison of contemporaneity: one should not live only in one’s own time. A wall of books is a wall of windows.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Beautiful, Wall, Block

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• Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Reading, Perfect

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• I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Memories, Hands, Hints

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• God uses millions of no-name influencers every day in the simplest selfless acts of service.  They are the teachers whose names will never be in the newspaper, pastors who will never author a book, managers who will never be profiled in a magazine, artists whose work is buried in layers of collaboration, writers whose sphere of influence is a few dozen people who read their blogs.  But they are the army that makes things happen.  To them devotion is its own reward.  For them influence is a continual act of giving, nothing more complicated than that.

  Mel Lawrenz

  Teacher, Army, Artist

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• It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.

  Paula Poundstone

  Truth, Women, Reading

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• Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is, Too Short

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• There is a direct correlation between the books you read and the success you achieve.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

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• JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever

  Stephen King

  Forever, Soul, Seven

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• You are what you read.

  Esko Valtaoja

  Reading, Writing, Personality

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• 42% of college graduates never read a book after college.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, College, Graduates

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• Have you really read all those books in your room?” Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.

  John Green

  Summer, Alaska, Laughing

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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.

  Kadir Nelson

  Character, Reflection, Mirrors

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• It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.

  Will Shetterly

  Writing, Firsts, Novelists

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• Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

  Richard Denney

  Writing, Choices, Stories

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• Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

  Mary Karr

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Reading

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2011.

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• Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Reading, Learning

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 11, 2017

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• A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspiring, Rest In Peace, Morning

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 31, 2011

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• I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Long, Letters

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• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Stupid, Reading, Civilization

  Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, Center for the Book, Authors' League of America (1980). “The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979”, Library of Congress

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• Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Inspirational, Change, Happy

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• The most important thing for a writer to do is to write. It really doesn't matter what you write as long as you are able to write fluidly, very quickly, very effortlessly. It needs to become not second nature but really first nature to you. And read; you need to read and you need to read excellent books and then some bad books. Not as many bad books, but some bad books, so that you can see what both look like and why both are what they are.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Long, Important

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 3, 2009.

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