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  1. Audrey Niffenegger _ The Night Bookmobile

    Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.
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  2. Katherine Dunn _ Truck

    I sit, tired of reading. I am sick of books. I can't tell where I leave off and the books begin. I'm nobody. I'm a polluted nothing. A confessed sin, an open door, the clutterer in the clutter.
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  3. William Nicholson _ Shadowlands

    We read to know we're not alone.
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  4. Terry Pratchett _ Truckers

    How many books are there?" said Masklin."Hundreds! Thousands!""Do you know what they're all about?"Gurder looked at him blankly. "Do you know what you're saying?" he said."No. But I want to find out.""They're about everything! You'd never believe it! They're full of words even I don't understand!""Can you find a book which tells you how to understand words you don't understand?" said Masklin.Gurder hesitated. "It's an intriguing thought," he said.
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  5. Terry Pratchett _ Wintersmith

    And he read all morning, but just to make it interesting, he put lots of dragons in it."
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  6. Terry Pratchett _ Interesting Times

    He wanted to say: how could you be so nice and yet so dumb? The best thing you could do with the peasents was to leave them alone. Let them get on with it. When people who can read and write start fighting for those who can't, you just end up with another kind of stupidity. If you want to help them, build a big library or something somewhere and leave the door open.
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  7. Terry Pratchett _ A Slip of the Keyboard:

    Escapism isn't good or bad of itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. I write from experience, since in my case I escaped to the idea that books could be really enjoyable, an aspect of reading that teachers had not hitherto suggested.
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  8. Terry Pratchett _ Snuff

    I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.
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  9. Michael Pollan _ A Place of My Own: The

    Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Writers perhaps appreciate its importance better than most, since a fair amount of what they call work consists of little more than daydreaming edited. Yet anyone who reads for pleasure should prize it too, for what is reading a good book but a daydream at second hand? Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.
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  10. I was reading
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  11. Tamora Pierce _ Briar's Book

    Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.
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  12. Julie Powell _ Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524

    But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out.For the sake of my bookish reputation I upgraded to Tolstoy and Steinbeck before I understood them, but my dark secret was that really, I preferred the junk. The Dragonriders of Pern, Flowers in the Attic, The Clan of the Cave Bear. This stuff was like my stash of Playboys under the mattress."
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