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Disputed attribution: Neil Gaiman
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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The picture is of reading as a lucid dream you can carry around: a small, solid object that opens into another mind's imagination. It turns up on library displays, bookshop bags and bookmarks because it flatters the physical book in an age of screens. It also suits Gaiman, whose fiction treats dreams as places you can visit.
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No primary source has been found for this line. Quote pages credit it to Neil Gaiman, with the wording varying between "hand" and "hands", and none names a book, speech or interview. The Goodreads entry is a community submission that the site says it does not verify. One search summary cited a BookRiot article of 18 June 2013 as an early place it was quoted, but that article was not located. It sits comfortably beside Gaiman's long habit of writing about books and dreams, but nothing tying the phrase to a particular work was found.
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- Goodreads: quote pagewhole pageReference checked
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