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  • #1
    Caroline Bock
    “Everybody knows, nobody's talking - from LIE --debut novel coming September 1st from St. Martin's Press”
    Caroline Bock

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #3
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #4
    John Cheever
    “I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
    John Cheever

  • #5
    Osip Mandelstam
    “My turn shall also come:
    I sense the spreading of a wing.”
    Osip Mandelstam, The Selected Poems

  • #6
    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Anne Frank
    “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
    Anne Frank

  • #9
    John Green
    “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #10
    David Hockney
    “I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”
    David Hockney

  • #11
    Francine Prose
    “People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.”
    Francine Prose, Goldengrove

  • #12
    Caroline Bock
    “Today I am a lens, a pen, a gun.”
    Caroline Bock, Before My Eyes

  • #13
    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

  • #14
    Henry Miller
    “The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
    Henry Miller

  • #15
    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

  • #16
    Albert Einstein
    “The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #17
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #18
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #19
    Alexandre Dumas fils
    “The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
    Alexandre Dumas-fils

  • #20
    Albert Einstein
    “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #21
    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    C.E.M. Joad

  • #22
    Caroline Bock
    “Today I am a lens, a pen, a gun."
    --p. 1 ...Before My Eyes...look for it on 2.11.14”
    Caroline Bock

  • #23
    Norton Juster
    “So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
    Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

  • #24
    Steve  Martin
    “I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
    Steve Martin

  • #25
    Steve Jobs
    “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #26
    George Orwell
    “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
    George Orwell, Why I Write



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