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“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
― John Grisham

“Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“We are always the same age inside. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

“You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“Literature is news that stays news.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
― Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
― Norman Mailer

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“Omit needless words.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly