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We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#inspirational #inspirational

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#companionship #inspirational #inspirational

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#readers #readers-and-writers #reading #reading-books #reasons-for-reading

I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE! ↗

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

#inspirational #life #inspirational

Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journy of exploration and discovery. ↗

— David Almond

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Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#inspirational #reading #inspirational

It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future... ↗

— Wilferd Peterson

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The world belongs to those who read. ↗

— Rick Holland

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If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you. ↗

— Alma Alexander

#inspiration #writing #inspirational

Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it. ↗

— Judy Blume

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