What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”? J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”? Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
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