Friday 28 June 2013

Book Quotes of the Week

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"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature is dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill." Henry David Thoreau

"There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place." J.K. Rowling

"You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading." James Patterson

"A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produced the sound is the reader's soul." Stendhal

"Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story." Malcolm Cowley

"One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us." Tessa Gray

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