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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. ↗

— George Carlin

#bookstores #self-help #purpose

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#christopher-hitchens #humour #literature #writing #write

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#writing #writer

And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is. ↗

— Paul Auster

#writing #writer

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#magic

At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book--that string of confused, alien ciphers--shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#childhood #literature #reading #stories #words

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#books

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#books

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#books

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. ↗