#books

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat. ↗

— Robert Graves

#breed #cat #dogs #i #prose

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books. ↗

— John Green

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My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since. ↗

— John Grisham

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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

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From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. ↗

— Helen Hayes

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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. ↗

— William Dean Howells

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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#humor #reading #humor