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> [A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-gordon/a-well-composed-book-is-a-magic-carpet-on-which-we-are-wafted-to-a/)

[Caroline Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-gordon/)

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## More by Caroline Gordon

> [We do not judge great art. It judges us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-gordon/we-do-not-judge-great-art-it-judges-us/)

[Caroline Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-gordon/)

> [... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-gordon/passion-once-unleashed-has-a-way-of-unleashing-other-passions-a/)

[Caroline Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-gordon/)

> [As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-gordon/as-a-rule-one-must-write-a-great-many-words-before-one-learns-to/)

[Caroline Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-gordon/)

> [A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-gordon/a-well-composed-book-is-a-magic-carpet-on-which-we-are-wafted-to-a/)

[Caroline Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-gordon/)

> [There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-gordon/there-are-other-great-writers-who-are-not-read-properly-in-their-own/)

[Caroline Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-gordon/)

> [It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-gordon/it-was-strange-how-you-could-never-form-any-conclusion-from-what/)

[Caroline Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-gordon/)

> [A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-gordon/a-first-book-often-has-enough-material-in-it-for-half-a-dozen/)

[Caroline Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-gordon/)

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