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...A really good book is one that never leaves me once I’ve read it; a story and characters and scenes which haunt me forever after...

— Ali Sparkes

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...The best thing is vanishing into other worlds, particularly when the world is in crisis!...

...Write anything at all – even a shopping list – when you’re daunted by a blank screen. Just to get your brain and fingers limbered up...

...If I’m not occasionally laughing out loud, welling up, or getting an increased heart rate while I’m writing, I’m not doing it right...

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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