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For your brief amusement, here's what some writers say about books. And they should know, right?

Definition of a classic: a book which people praise but don't read.

Mark Twain.

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Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Jane Smiley

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If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book.

J.K. Rowling

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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

Carl Sagan

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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Neil Gaiman