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All you need to do to publish a best-selling book is take a selfie of your foot. Seriously.

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It was the overwhelming feeling of not belonging somewhere and just like that, I felt like I was too old for YouTube. And this is coming from someone who paid $200 on merchandise at a One Direction concert.

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As the digital tempest batters the publishing industry, a group of hardy navigators have taken up a call for “Manifestos For The Future Of The Book Business,” and their 500-word essays are beacons of potential in uncertain days.

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In today’s technology obsessed culture, finding people who enjoy reading books in their spare time is a challenging and disheartening task. It’s hard for most people to find the time to pick up a work of art, when there are Snapchat stories to catch up on, Tumblr posts to reblog, and Instagram pictures to filter. However, true booklovers know the joy that comes from escaping into word-soaked pages. There are several qualities that all booklovers share.

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Jane Austen was an English novelist who was as funny as she was flippant – in other words, my kind of girl.

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“So what’s your real job?”

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It’s been said that if you want to write a book too difficult for grown-ups, then write it for children.

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If you fall in love with a writer, don’t be upset if they decide to write about how you hurt them. The story belongs to them, and the only way for them to move on is by writing about it.

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Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I’ve never met a psychiatric patient who agreed. – Elyn R.

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“Discovering this, [that you suffer only from yourself], the mind becomes whole: the split between I and me, man and the world, the ideal and the real, comes to an end.