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• These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

  Gilbert Highet

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• There’s a series of children’s books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

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• I’ve never turned into a bee – I’ve never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

  R. L. Stine

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• When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called ‘Tales From The Crypt’ and ‘The Vault of Horror.’ They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous.

  R. L. Stine

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• Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.

  R. L. Stine

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• When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

  R. L. Stine

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• Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

  Francesco Petrarca

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• Books are humanity in print.

  Barbara W. Tuchman

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  The end of reading is not more books but more life.

  Holbrook Jackson

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• Books are my weakness.

  Dan Stevens

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• Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

  B. C. Forbes

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• Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

  V. S. Naipaul

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• As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

  Umberto Eco

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• Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

  George William Curtis

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• Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

  Samuel Johnson

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• My main wish is to get my books into other people’s rooms, and to keep other people’s books out of mine.

  Samuel Butler

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  I cannot live without books.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• As a writer, it’s disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.

  Sylvia Day

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• Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

  Susie Bright

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• I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.

  Susie Bright

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