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World Book Day - April 23:

World Book Day - April 23

What an astonishing thing a book is.

It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles.

But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person,

maybe somebody dead for thousands of years.

Across the millennia,

an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head,

directly to you.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions,

binding together people who never knew each other,

citizens of distant epochs.

Books break the shackles of time.

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

- Carl Sagan.

Olin Miller, on writing:

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

- Olin Miller.

Author humor:

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Dorothy Parker, on creativity:

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

- Dorothy Parker.

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Gustave Flaubert, on writing:

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

- Gustave Flaubert.

C. S. Lewis, on writing:

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing:

ink is the great cure for all human ills,

as I have found out long ago.

- C. S. Lewis.

Author humor:

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