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  • #1
    N. Scott Momaday
    “A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”
    N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

  • #2
    “You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
    Ira Glass

  • #3
    Stephen Vincent Benét
    “There is a wilderness we walk alone
    However well-companioned”
    Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star

  • #4
    Julia Glass
    “When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
    Julia Glass, Three Junes

  • #5
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #6
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
    Vladimir Nabokov

  • #7
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #8
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “Patience is a conquering virtue.”
    Geoffrey Chaucer

  • #9
    Sue Grafton
    “Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
    Sue Grafton

  • #10
    Henry James
    “She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
    Henry James

  • #11
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • #12
    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #13
    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    William Faulkner

  • #14
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
    Zora Neale Hurston

  • #15
    Jon Krakauer
    “It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
    Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

  • #16
    Daphne du Maurier
    “Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
    Daphne du Maurier

  • #17
    Anthony Burgess
    “Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
    anthony burgess

  • #18
    Katherine Anne Porter
    “I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
    Katherine Anne Porter

  • #19
    Nora Ephron
    “Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #20
    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    Anais Nin

  • #21
    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • #22
    Richard Wright
    “The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
    Richard Wright

  • #23
    “Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
    Colm Tóibín

  • #24
    Helen Keller
    “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
    Helen Keller

  • #25
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”
    Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon

  • #26
    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #27
    Thomas Mann
    “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
    Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

  • #28
    Louise Erdrich
    “Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.”
    Louise Erdrich

  • #29
    Joseph Conrad
    “It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
    Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

  • #30
    Allan Gurganus
    “Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”
    Allan Gurganus



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