"I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!"
— Jasper Fforde (Lost in a Good Book)

"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."
— Jasper Fforde (The Eyre Affair)

"Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard."
— Daphne du Maurier

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligable"
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant."
— Cary Grant

"Jimmy Stewart is always and indisputably the best man in the world, unless Cary Grant should happen to show up."
— Marisa de los Santos (Love Walked In)

"The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

"People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues."
— Elizabeth Gaskell

""Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" Ms. Pole, Cranford"
— Elizabeth Gaskell (Cranford)

"But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon
from which we watch for it."
— Elizabeth Gaskell (North and South)

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
— Oscar Wilde

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

"It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."
— C.S. Lewis

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy (Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy)

"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."
— Marion C. Garretty

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

"To love would be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
— Lewis Carroll

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
— Henry Ward Beecher

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."
— C.S. Lewis

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
— Louisa May Alcott (Work: A Story of Experience)

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."
— Oscar Wilde

"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels."
— Ann Richards