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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft