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I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now...more

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Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how th...more

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Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

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Great books help you understand and they help you feel understood.

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I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable ...more

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It doesn’t matter how long we’ve used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, ...more

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Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in book...more

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Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

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Human existence is temporary and all the knowledge of the universe we acquire will in time be forgotten because there will be no humans left to benefi...more

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Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

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Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.

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I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the ...more

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In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to c...more

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Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious ba...more

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Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each re...more