"There are also books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words- the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers that won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book."
-Hearts in Atlantis, Stephen King
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"There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind."
-The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
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"... and it was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had by nature nothing heroic about her, should prefer... at the age of fourteen, to books, or at least books of information, for provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all. But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives."
" 'I will read you their names directly; here they are in my pocket-book. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries. Those will last us some time. '
'...but are they all horrid? Are you sure they are all horrid?'
'Yes, quite sure; for a particular friend of mine, a Miss Andrews, a sweet girl, one of the sweetest creatures in the world, has read every one of them.' "
-Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
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"He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and a decided taste for reading and sedentary pursuits."
" 'I am sure Lady Russell would like him. He is just Lady Russell's sort. Give him a book, and he will read all day long.'
'Yes, that he will!' exclaimed Mary tauntingly. 'He will sit poring over his book, and not know when a person speaks to him, or when one
drops ones' scissors, or anything that happens.' "
-Persuasion, Jane Austen
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"And books! ...she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into unworthy hands; and she would have every book that tells her how to admire an old twisted tree. "
-Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
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"Yet it seemed to Bega that if she could continue to read, which had come so easily to her... then that would be a life which take every ounce of her strength. She wanted no less. She loved to see the shapes and strokes of line and turn them into words: she loved the idea of battling against enemies external and internal and all her will being consumed in that battle."
"I had never felt so rich as when I was allowed to be alone in that library, reading..."
"It is impossible to get enough books, don't you find? But where are we without them? Just words on the wind... Not words on the mind."
"...who had heard him tell the story many times, but knew that he needed to repeat it to lessen the pain of it..."
-Credo, Melvynn Bragg
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"... the word book acted as a transient stimulus..."
"I too, liked reading, though of a frivolous and childish kind. I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial."
"... I seldom put, and never keep things in order; I am careless; I forget rules; I read when I should learn my lessons; I have no method: and sometimes I say, like you, I cannot bear to be subjected to systematic arrangements."
" 'Have you read much?'
'Only such books as came my way; and they have not been numerous, or very learned.' "
-Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
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"Douglas knows about stuff like this because all he ever does is read, and sometimes he reads actual books, as opposed to comic books."
-Missing: When Lightning Strikes, Meg Cabot a.k.a. Jenny Carroll
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"Douglas has more books- and comic books- than anyone I know. Still, if you wanted to borrow one, and took it down off the shelf and forgot to mention it to him, Douglas would notice right away it was missing, even though there are maybe a thousand other ones that look exactly like it right on the shelf beside it. Douglas is one of those books people."
-Missing: Sanctuary, Meg Cabot a.k.a. Jenny Carroll
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