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“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.”

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Book:In good faith

Source: In good faith

“I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“A book worth reading is worth buying.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.”

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Author:Sidney Sheldon

“A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.”

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Author:Augustine Birrell

“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”

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Book:Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!”

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Book:The History of Pendennis (Volume 2 of 2 ) (EasyRead Edition)

Source: The History of Pendennis (Volume 2 of 2 ) (EasyRead Edition)

“'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.”

“Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.”

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Author:Abraham Verghese