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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back...more

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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

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But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.

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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back...more

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Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made...more

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I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

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Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how th...more

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Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

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Great books help you understand and they help you feel understood.

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I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable ...more

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Human existence is temporary and all the knowledge of the universe we acquire will in time be forgotten because there will be no humans left to benefi...more

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Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

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In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to c...more

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Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious ba...more

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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.