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- Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. — Elizabeth Hardwick
- Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer… — Petrarch
- A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline,… — Blake Morrison
- The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is… — John Dos Passos
- You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me… — Robertson Davies
- Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again. — Kathryn Stockett
- I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of… — Natalie Babbitt
- Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming… — Orhan Pamuk