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As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Bond Books Child Develops Father Importance Picture Reading Through Understand Your Your Child

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Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal that says 'laureate' to continue that.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Agency Books Children Come Continue Government Laureate Like Listen Medal Need Out Says Whose Will Writer

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Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Adding Age Any Behind Best Between Book Books Everybody Excitement Filled Gap Grow Imagination Leave Left Much Older Picture Pictures Reader Reading Words

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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

~Anthony Burgess

Topics: Average Books Bookstore Branch Chain City Large Library Neighborhood Number System University

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I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Books Boston Give Globe Like Reviews Science Write I Write

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When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around the house.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Around Books Boy Fit House Now Owned Several Shelf Single Stacked Thousand

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If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to get to 3,640 books.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Adulthood Book Books Enough Every Get Going Literate Lucky One Book Only Read Still Week Years You

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Pretty much every night of their lives, my 8-year-old sons have absorbed themselves entirely in books. As toddlers, they pointed out pictures, made conjectures; lately, we find them in their bunk beds embarked upon two-hour comic-reading benders.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Absorb Beds Books Bunk Conjecture Embarked Entirely Every Every Night Find Lately Lives Made Much Night Out Pictures Pointed Pretty Sons Them Themselves

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When people ask for book recommendations, I say this: Do some math. If you read one book every week for the rest of your life, and if you're lucky enough to live for 50 more years, you're only going to get to 2,600 books.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Ask Book Books Enough Every Get Going Life Live Lucky Math More One Book Only People Read Recommendations Rest Say Some Week Years You Your

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Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Being Books Could Human Human Being Just Kid Learned Leaves Making Maybe Read Suddenly Then Think Trees While You

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