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  • #1
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
    W. Somerset Maugham

  • #2
    “Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.”
    Jack Woodford

  • #3
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #4
    Roald Dahl
    “Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
    Roald Dahl, The BFG

  • #5
    Dr. Seuss
    “ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!”
    Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

  • #6
    Matt Groening
    “Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you!
    — Russ Cargill”
    Matt Groening

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #9
    Douglas Adams
    “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #10
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #11
    Steve  Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    Steve Martin

  • #12
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #13
    Alexandre Dumas fils
    “The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
    Alexandre Dumas-fils

  • #14
    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #15
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    Lloyd Alexander

  • #16
    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #17
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
    Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
    Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
    One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
    One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #18
    Rick Riordan
    “How did you die?"
    "We er....drowned in a bathtub."
    "All three of you?"
    "It was a big bathtub.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #19
    Dr. Seuss
    “Be awesome! Be a book nut!”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #20
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #21
    Dr. Seuss
    “Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #22
    Rick Riordan
    “It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.”
    Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

  • #23
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #24
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #25
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along.
    To look ahead,' said he.
    And what brought you back in the nick of time?'
    Looking behind,' said he.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #26
    Richard Bach
    “A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
    Richard Bach

  • #27
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #28
    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    Terry Pratchett, Jingo

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #30
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    George Bernard Shaw



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