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In case you slept in Saturday morning, here’s some of what you missed at the L.A. Times Festival of Books. And yes, Scooby-Doo is roaming the fest, too.

Overheard at #bookfest: ‘It’s like Disneyland for nerds!’
@HuffPostBooks

OH at #bookfest: ‘My book is like Harry Potter but with dead people.’
@HuffPostBooks

‘I shed all kinds of unmanly tears over this book.’ -- Lev Grossman on ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ @latfob #bookfest
@yenniechung

‘Great books make us realize we are not alone in our joy and our sadness’ @realjohngreen #bookfest
@HuffPostBooks

You have to risk making a fool of yourself as a writer. You have to expose your beliefs, your dreams. Dana Gioia #uscwc #bookfest
Kathy Hernandez @kchristieh

Did you know? Blank journals used to be called ‘commonplace books.’ @ivorymadison of @redroomdotcom at #uscwc #bookfest
@USClibraries

Chef Michael Voltaggio, co-author of ‘VOLT inc.’ (Olive Press) cooking w/liquid nitrogen at the #LATFOB cooking stage
@BookSoup

-- Compiled by Mary Forgione

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