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"Many writers who have hit the best-seller lists or won major awards have a strict policy of not writing blurbs."

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"Though fairy-stories are of course by no means the only medium of Escape, they are today one of the most obvious and …"

"When the seas of life get rough, some readers look for escape, while others dive right in. So it is , when many book …"

"People who read tend to commit fewer s, I guess. I think that one of the reasons for that isn’t just that they’re bri…"

"Real life is overrated. But as readers we can escape to any elsewhere our heart desires – and at present all my heart…"

"Such forgeries were common enough... So unenviable was the reputation that priests had acquired in this matter that I…"

"The very best proof of how much writing mattered was the forgeries. Forgery had been an ecclesiastical habit for cent…"

"The present generation has this ingrained weakness, that it thinks that nothing discovered by the moderns is worthy t…"