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  • #1
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #2
    Paula Poundstone
    “Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
    Paula Poundstone

  • #3
    Chloe Thurlow
    “Love is a noun as well as a verb, a treacherous construct.”
    Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

  • #4
    “Silence—people are afraid of it—they feel the need to make small talk, anything, just to break the stillness. I don’t feel any such need. To me, silence brings about peace and certitude.”
    Henry Martin, Escaping Barcelona

  • #5
    Richard Matheson
    “That which you believe becomes your world.”
    Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

  • #6
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • #7
    “Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
    Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

  • #8
    Wayne  Barrett
    “If I was half the writer that you are, I would be a three foot poet.”
    Wayne Barrett

  • #9
    Louis L'Amour
    “Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
    Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

  • #10
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

  • #11
    Jane Goodall
    “The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
    Jane Goodall

  • #12
    Stephen  King
    “High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.”
    Stephen King, Carrie

  • #13
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #14
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
    Vladimir Nabokov

  • #15
    D. Aswini
    “Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life”
    D. Aswini, Saffron - The Blood Swan

  • #16
    Daniel Defoe
    “The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
    Daniel Defoe

  • #17
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #18
    Chloe Thurlow
    “Life is a long road with lots of junctions and every time you chose to go one way, you may just have easily have gone the other. We don't make choices so much as choices are made like a new fashion we slip into without realising.”
    Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

  • #20
    “Eleven years ago he retired from life. Death was never really his style.”
    Jim Buckner, De Novo Syndrome

  • #21
    Charles Dickens
    “You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"
    "I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”
    Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

  • #22
    Henry Miller
    “Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.”
    Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

  • #23
    Annie Proulx
    “You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
    Annie Proulx

  • #24
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #25
    Joe Hill
    “Christmas was almost three months in the rearview mirror, and there was something awful about Christmas music when it was nearly summer. It was like a clown in the rain, with his makeup running.”
    Joe Hill, NOS4A2

  • #26
    Susanna Clarke
    “And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
    Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

  • #27
    Chloe Thurlow
    “You must write as if each word is a precious drop of blood, or a tear to be saved in a glass phial.”
    Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

  • #28
    Wayne  Barrett
    “My kind has become the the centerpiece for horror stories and legends across the globe, and society has labeled the vampire as a monster, but the creature peering from beneath the fog misted top hat that night was a monster that would surpass the wildest imaginations of the most skilled story tellers. And he was a human being.”
    Wayne Barrett, Feather and Bone

  • #29
    Stephen  King
    “A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.”
    Stephen King, 11/22/63

  • #30
    Mario Puzo
    “A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
    Mario Puzo, The Godfather

  • #31
    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    Daniel Pennac



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