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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
― Douglas Adams

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
― Sid Ziff

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
― Isaac Asimov

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
― Joseph Joubert

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

“I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.”
― Groucho Marx

“It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.”
― Nancy Thayer

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”
― J.D. Salinger

“You are what you write.”
― Helvy Tiana Rosa, Risalah Cinta

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”
― Mae West

“If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.”
― Ernest Hemingway