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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible

Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)

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But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.

Umberto Eco, Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)

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On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned — in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

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