And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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…what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface: I read on, I skip, I look up, I dip in again. Which has nothing to do with the deep laceration the text of bliss inflicts upon language itself, and not upon the simple temporality of its reading.
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text
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If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
― Toni Morrison
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I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
― Jorge Luis Borges
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
― W.H. Auden, The Dyer’s Hand
Getting into the Halloween spirit with some creepy and sometimes disturbing kaleidoscopes…
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The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.
― J.K. Rowling
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I believe in the magic and authority of words.
― René Char
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Books may well be the only true magic.
― Alice Hoffman
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