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I used to walk
to school with my nose buried in a book.
-- Coolio
1963-, American Musician,
Rapper, Actor, Singer, Songwriter
The book
salesman should be honored because he brings to our
attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and
neglect most.
-- Frank Crane
American Actor
You are wise,
witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading
this sort of stuff.
-- Jim Critchfield
The successful
Accelerated Reader is able to read larger than normal
''blocks'' or ''bites'' of the printed page with each eye
stop. He has accepted, without reservation, the philosophy
that the most important benefit of reading is the gaining of
information, ideas, mental ''picture'' and entertainment-not
the fretting over words. He has come to the realization that
words in and of themselves are for the most part
insignificant.
-- Wade E. Cutler
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A good book is
the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it,
while the foibles and faults of his actual life are
forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great
sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves,
waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with
their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.
-- Theodore L. Cuyler
1822-1909, American Pastor,
Author
The great
American novel has not only already been written, it has
already been rejected.
-- Frank Dane
Next, in
importance to books are their titles.
-- Paul Davies
1946-, British Physicist,
Popularizer of Science
If I had my
way books would not be written in English, but in an
exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled
professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then
people like you would have to go to public halls and pay
good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the
books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of
scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians,
country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not
have the patience to learn the secret language.
-- Robertson Davies
1913-, Canadian Novelist,
Journalist
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