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Book Quotes by Laura Miller
- Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported…
- Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.
- Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey…
- The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with...
- If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very…
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- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood