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  • #1
    Nathanael West
    “Numbers constitute the only universal language.”
    Nathanael West

  • #2
    Margaret Atwood
    “A word after a word after a word is power.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #3
    Joseph Conrad
    “It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
    Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

  • #4
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

  • #5
    Louis L'Amour
    “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
    Louis L'Amour

  • #6
    Dodie Smith
    “I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.”
    Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

  • #7
    E. Nesbit
    “There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
    E. Nesbit, The Magic World

  • #8
    James  Jones
    “That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
    James Jones, From Here to Eternity

  • #9
    Charles Dickens
    “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
    Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
    “I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #12
    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    William Faulkner

  • #13
    Brian Jacques
    “Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
    Brian Jacques, Redwall

  • #14
    Deepak Chopra
    “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
    Deepak Chopra

  • #15
    Terry Southern
    “The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
    Terry Southern

  • #16
    Andrea Barrett
    “We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
    Andrea Barrett

  • #17
    Adeline Yen Mah
    “Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
    Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

  • #18
    Agatha Christie
    “Very few of us are what we seem.”
    Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

  • #19
    Nicholson Baker
    “Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
    Nicholson Baker

  • #20
    David  Mitchell
    “My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #21
    Courage, dear heart.
    “Courage, dear heart.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

  • #22
    Patricia Highsmith
    “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
    Patricia Highsmith

  • #23
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind



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