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  • #1
    David  Mitchell
    “A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #2
    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    Herman Melville

  • #3
    “Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.”
    Danielle Steel, Happy Birthday

  • #4
    Anna Deavere Smith
    “Each person has a literature inside them.”
    Anna Deavere Smith

  • #5
    William Golding
    “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
    William Golding, Lord of the Flies

  • #6
    Anne Rice
    “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
    Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

  • #7
    Rick Moody
    “I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
    Rick Moody

  • #8
    Haruki Murakami
    “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
    Haruki Marukami

  • #9
    Ally Condie
    “How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?”
    Ally Condie, Matched

  • #10
    Ally Condie
    “We don't need to understand everything.”
    Ally Condie, Matched

  • #11
    Paul Auster
    “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
    Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

  • #12
    Tom Bodett
    “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
    Tom Bodett

  • #13
    George Moore
    “We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.”
    George Moore

  • #14
    Ralph Ellison
    “What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
    Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • #15
    Keri Hulme
    “You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
    Keri Hulme, The Bone People

  • #16
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #17
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #18
    Suzanne Collins
    “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #19
    Gayle Forman
    “Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
    Gayle Forman, If I Stay

  • #20
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #21
    Anna Quindlen
    “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
    Anna Quindlen

  • #22
    David Nicholls
    “This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
    David Nicholls, One Day

  • #23
    Suzanne Collins
    “May the odds be ever in your favor!”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #24
    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    Frederick Douglass

  • #25
    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

  • #26
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #27
    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    William Faulkner

  • #28
    Ivan Turgenev
    “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
    Ivan Turgenev

  • #29
    Neil Gaiman
    “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

  • #30
    George Eliot
    “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
    George Eliot



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