"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
— Henry David Thoreau

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
— Maya Angelou

"The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink."
— Walter Mosley

"There are books by which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."
— Charles Dickens

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
— Stephen King

"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."
— Stephen King

"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
— Stephen King

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
— Henry David Thoreau

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
— Henry David Thoreau

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero