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  • #1
    Sarah Addison Allen
    “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
    Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

  • #2
    Sarah Addison Allen
    “I was just telling Claire about a guy I met in bread class. I hate him, but he could be my soul mate.”
    Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

  • #3
    Sarah Addison Allen
    “Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.”
    Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

  • #4
    Gertrude Stein
    “It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
    Gertrude Stein

  • #5
    Marianne Moore
    “Your thorns are the best part of you.”
    Marianne Moore

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    Walter Mosley
    “We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
    Walter Mosley, Blue Light

  • #8
    Lucille Clifton
    “You might as well answer the door, my child,
    the truth is furiously knocking.”
    Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

  • #9
    LeVar Burton
    “For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
    LeVar Burton

  • #10
    Mo Yan
    “People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
    Mo Yan

  • #11
    Helen Fielding
    “It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
    Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

  • #12
    Anthony Burgess
    “Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
    Anthony Burgess

  • #13
    Victor Hugo
    “To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #14
    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

  • #15
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #16
    Sara Gruen
    “With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”
    Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

  • #17
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #18
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #19
    Jack Kerouac
    “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

  • #20
    Sue Grafton
    “Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
    Sue Grafton

  • #21
    Daniel Defoe
    “The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
    Daniel Defoe

  • #22
    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    Anais Nin

  • #23
    Brian Moore
    “Love isn't an act, it's a whole life.”
    Brian Moore

  • #24
    Jeanette Winterson
    “Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
    Jeanette Winterson

  • #25
    “Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
    Sara Henderson

  • #26
    E.E. Cummings
    “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #27
    Tim O'Brien
    “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
    Tim O'Brien

  • #28
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    P.G. Wodehouse

  • #29
    Zadie Smith
    “Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
    Zadie Smith, White Teeth

  • #30
    Lee Child
    “I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.”
    Lee Child, 61 Hours



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