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As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still...more

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Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye "sees" the story as well as reads it, its layout, its paragraphs and ...more

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Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

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Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

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A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

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Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger ...more

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Books’ll be back,” Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. “Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It’s not far away. Th...more