“Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.”
Gary D. Schmidt (1957) American writer
Source: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”
— Alan Bennett, book The Uncommon Reader
Source: The Uncommon Reader
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