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26 Quotes for the Ultimate Book Lover

If you're always reading a novel (or three), these are for you.

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These authors, writers, and thinkers know that magical worlds await in between two covers and a spine. Beach read or literary classic, nothing beats a great book.

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Alberto Manguel

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Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

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Annie Dillard

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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

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Betty Smith

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The world was hers for the reading.

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Jhumpa Lahiri

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That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

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Malala Yousafzai

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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

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Mark Haddon

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Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

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Paul Sweeney

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You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

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Beverly Cleary​

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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelf, write it.

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Celeste Ng

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The story is truly finished — and meaning is made — not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters.

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Colson Whitehead

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What isn't said is as important as what is said.

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Donna Tartt​

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Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.

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Dr. Seuss​​

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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

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Emily Ruskovich​​

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Poetic language is a way of giving the sense of an answer, just a sense of one, that the story itself is unable to provide.

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George R.R. Martin​

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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

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Margaret Atwood​​

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In the end, we’ll all become stories.

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Anna Quindlen

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Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

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Neil Gaiman​

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A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.

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J.K. Rowling

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I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

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Stephen King

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Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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Mason Cooley

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Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

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