I love the smell of book ink in the morning.― Umberto Eco

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For a woman to be able to dominate and also be feminine and soft, that's a talent. And its not all about appearance. A woman who has a brain, who is street-smart and book-smart, that woman is very, very sexy to me.

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My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.

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I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

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Books may well be the only true magic.

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I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.

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There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

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They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

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There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

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