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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

E.M. Forster

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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Marcel Proust

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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

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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Susan Sontag

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Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

John Ruskin

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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

E.M. Forster

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Me, poor man, my library
Was dukedom large enough.

William Shakespeare

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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

Virginia Woolf