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  • #1
    Sinclair Lewis
    “We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
    Sinclair Lewis

  • #2
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #3
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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

  • #6
    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #7
    Julian Beck
    “You cannot be free if you are contained within a fiction.”
    Julian Beck, The Life of the Theatre

  • #8
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #9
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “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

  • #10
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

  • #11
    Neil Gaiman
    “To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

  • #12
    Chris Dietzel
    “Anything said is gone as soon as it leaves my lips. Things written down at least have a chance to leave a soft echo of what had been.”
    Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

  • #13
    Chris Dietzel
    “Maybe that’s why I get frustrated sometimes, because there’s no one to blame for how our lives have turned out. I wouldn’t change any of the things I’ve done, but at the same time I wish things were different than they are. I have no regrets, but there’s also no satisfaction in where I am.”
    Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

  • #14
    Chris Dietzel
    “Scared people don’t really mean what they say, they’re just looking for ways to rationalize everything so they have someone or something to blame. They need to have a reason for what’s happening because when they have that they can take comfort in knowing it’s out of their control.”
    Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

  • #15
    Richard Ford
    “In their faces--plenty of them were handsome, but ruined--I've seen the remnants of who they almost succeeded in being but failed to be, before becoming themselves.”
    Richard Ford, Canada

  • #16
    Stephen  King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #17
    Stephen  King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    Stephen King

  • #18
    Stephen  King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    Stephen King, Different Seasons

  • #19
    Clive Barker
    “You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.”
    Clive Barker

  • #20
    Joseph Brodsky
    “The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
    Joseph Brodsky

  • #21
    Jamaica Kincaid
    “There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.”
    Jamaica Kincaid

  • #22
    “Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”
    Vanessa M. Chattman, Courtyard Dreams

  • #23
    “Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”
    Vanessa M. Chattman, Castle Stories

  • #24
    John Cheever
    “I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
    John Cheever

  • #25
    Ian Fleming
    “Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
    Ian Fleming

  • #26
    “Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages.”
    Vanessa M Chattman

  • #27
    Mark Haddon
    “I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them”
    Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

  • #28
    Ken Follett
    “The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.”
    Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

  • #29
    Ken Follett
    “Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.”
    Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

  • #30
    Ken Follett
    “She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.”
    Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth



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