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You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.

I'm always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so many hours with these fictional people, I sometimes see them more than my real friends. And then they're gone, and we'll never be together like that again.

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.