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Reading in Egypt is cheap and will not develop until you believe that reading is a vital necessity

Naguib Mahfouz Sugar Street
Reading in Egypt is cheap and will not develop until you believe that reading is a vital necessity

Surely it is better, thought Domenica, that forty-five should buy the book and actually read it, than should many thousands, indeed millions, buy it and put it on their shelves, like...Professor...

Alexander McCall Smith The World...
Surely it is better, thought Domenica, that forty-five should buy the book and actually read it, than should many thousands, indeed millions, buy it and put it on their shelves, like...Professor Hawking's Brief History of Time. That was a book that had been bought by millions, but had been demonstrated to have been read by only a minute proportion of those who had acquired it. For do we not all have a copy of that on our shelves, and who amongst us can claim to have read beyond the first page, in spite of the pellucid prose of its author and his evident desire to share with us his knowledge of...of whatever it is that the book is about?

That, incidentally, gives me the greatest possible pleasure-the knowledge that we are all linked by our friendship with a group of fictional people. What a pleasant club of which to be a member! {from...

Alexander McCall Smith The Importance...
That, incidentally, gives me the greatest possible pleasure-the knowledge that we are all linked by our friendship with a group of fictional people. What a pleasant club of which to be a member! {from the preface; on writing for people around the world}

I couldn't believe it. It wasn't just that he knew about Narnia. I could tell that he knew what I meant by a Narnia cubby. It was all there in his eyes. He knew that I didn't actually think I was Lucy...

Kathryn Lasky Memoirs of a...
I couldn't believe it. It wasn't just that he knew about Narnia. I could tell that he knew what I meant by a Narnia cubby. It was all there in his eyes. He knew that I didn't actually think I was Lucy going through a real door to magical lands. He knew that the cubby in the Roadmaster was a sane person's ticket to freedom of thought.
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