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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Selected Poems

  • #3
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #4
    Margaret Walker
    “When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
    Margaret Walker

  • #5
    A.J. Cronin
    “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
    A.J. Cronin

  • #6
    Audrey Hepburn
    “If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.”
    Audrey Hepburn

  • #7
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

  • #8
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

  • #9
    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    Anne Tyler

  • #10
    Will Rogers
    “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
    Will Rogers

  • #11
    Christopher Paolini
    “Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
    Christopher Paolini

  • #12
    Anthony  Powell
    “I get a warm feeling among my books.”
    Anthony Powell

  • #13
    W.C. Fields
    “It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
    W.C. Fields

  • #14
    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

  • #15
    Sinclair Lewis
    “We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
    Sinclair Lewis

  • #16
    Johnny Cash
    “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
    Johnny Cash

  • #17
    Pearl S. Buck
    “Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #18
    J.K. Rowling
    “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #19
    Bob Newhart
    “I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
    Bob Newhart

  • #20
    Diana Gabaldon
    “Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

  • #21
    Stephen  King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #22
    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

  • #23
    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    William Faulkner

  • #24
    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    Anais Nin

  • #25
    Helen Keller
    “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
    Helen Keller

  • #26
    Anna Akhmatova
    “If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
    Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

  • #27
    Jean de la Fontaine
    “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
    Jean de La Fontaine

  • #28
    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    George R. R. Martin

  • #29
    “Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
    Jonathan Kellerman

  • #30
    Nelson DeMille
    “The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
    Nelson De Mille



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