16 reasons why history’s greatest writers loved books
Stephen King has called books a “a uniquely portable magic.” It's probably one reason that Americans still buy approximately five million books a day and that 125 new ones are published in the US every twenty-four hours. In fact, Google estimates that as of August 2010, there were 129,864,880 books in existence. This love affair with the written word has a long and passionate history and, unsurprisingly, its most ardent supporters have often been writers. Here's why in their own words.
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