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I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle sho...more

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I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there...more

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...Because a book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else’s head. You see out of the world through somebody else’s eyes. It’s ve...more

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I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and ge...more

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Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.

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Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many.

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We owe it to each other to tell stories.

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Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

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Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to clos...more

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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

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People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

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Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barba

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I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from...more

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My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each...more

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Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise ...more