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I'm currently reading Wilkie Collin's most celebrated novel, The Woman in White, and discovered this wonderful quote within the first few lines. It really is a rather good read, by the way, so if you haven't already enjoyed it, I suggest you go and find yourself a copy. For a classic text, it is much easier to read than you might imagine! Photo credit: Abhi Sharma , via Flickr Creative Commons.

I'm currently reading Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading  by Lucy Mangan, which is a charming account of the author's adventures in literature from an early age. I'm enthralled by the nostalgia. Ms. Mangan and I, it seems, read many of the same books in our early formative years and share a love of discovering new (if not particularly useful) words. I'm yet to read beyond Mangan's primary school years, but am looking forward very much to discovering new YA books of bygone years to add to my ever-increasing reading list! The quote above particularly stood out among the many wonderful, inspiring and endearing lines. To provide a greater sense of context, the passage in full is as follows: "You simply never know what a child is going to find in a book (or a graphic novel, or a comic, or whatever) - what tiny, throwaway line might be the spark that lights the fuse that sets off an explosion in understanding, whose force echoes down years. And it enables me to ...

RIP Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018.

A beautiful quote from Jason Gurley's Eleanor , which perfectly encompasses the feeling of his novel. Photo credit: Diana Robinson , via Flickr.

From S. by Doug Dorst and JJ Abrahms. Photo credit: Sam Javanrouh , via Flickr.

One of my favourite quotes from The Rabbit Back Literature Society . Read a full review of the book here .

From  A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness.

If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. Stephen King