I'd stop the world from spinning for you."
That silly line oddly touched me. "I love you."
"Liked that one, did you.

Sylvia Day

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God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family so demean themselves. How can one tell who might read it? No worthy book has ever been written for gain, I think;

Iain Pears

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Someone who hasn't read a novel doesn't really know what it's about, William.

John Irving

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There wasn't a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words...

Lindsay Eland

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There is nothing an author today has to guard himself more carefully against than the Saga Habit. The least slackening of vigilance and the thing has gripped him.

P.G. Wodehouse

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Books make the best ersatz friendships.

Nenia Campbell

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The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.... To write a book set in the present, circa 2013, is to write about the distant past.

Gary Shteyngart

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He does manage the bookstore, which is currently my favorite place on earth." Her eyes glazed over. "All those books. If I married him, I could probably work there the rest of my life. Nothing would make me happier."

"What about love?" Ve asked.

"Oh," Harper said solemnly. "I love books.

Heather Blake

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Because a book is a life, like one man is a life.

Studs Terkel

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She knew where she stood, when she stood among books.

M.R. Graham

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