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“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
― Boris Pasternak

“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
― Sherwood Anderson

“One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together.”
― William H. Armstrong

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
― Anne Bradstreet

“Each person has a literature inside them.”
― Anna Deavere Smith

“Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
― Jude Deveraux

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

“It isn't ever delicate to live.”
― Kay Ryan

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
― W.S. Merwin

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

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

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

“One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.”
― John Cowper Powys

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
― Guillermo Del Toro

“I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.”
― Harold Pinter, Betrayal

“You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
― Richard Price

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
― Paul Simon

“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”
― Tracy Chevalier

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”
― Michael Crichton

“Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow...”
― Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

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

“The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.”
― Anne Perry, The Whitechapel Conspiracy

“To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.”
― Henry Green

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign