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Carolyn Wells, an American author born on June 18, 1862, and died on March 26, 1942, is renowned for her works in children's literature. Her stories are cherished for their rich imagination and delicate emotions.

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“Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.”

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Book:The White Alley

Source: The White Alley

“When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough.”

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Author:Carolyn Wells

“There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.”

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Author:Carolyn Wells

“I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson's.”

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Author:Carolyn Wells

“... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.”

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Author:Carolyn Wells

“I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result.”

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Author:Carolyn Wells

“The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy The books that people talk about we never can recall And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.”

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Author:Carolyn Wells

“It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.”

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Book:The Rest of My Life

Source: The Rest of My Life