What astonishing thing a book is.
It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on wich is imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles.
But once glance at it and you're inside the mind of somebody else, maybe dead for thousands of years. Across the millenia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.
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A half-finished book, is after all, a half-finished love affair.
-David Mitchell.
''Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!"
-Neil Gaiman.
''Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live." ( I love this one so much )
-Gustave Flaubert.
"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."
-Stephen King.
"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
-J.D Salinger.
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
-Toni Morrison.
"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.''
-George R.R. Martin.
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
-Charles William Elliot.
YOU ARE READING
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