Laura > Laura's Quotes

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
― Neil Gaiman

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“There is nothing magical about the flip of the calendar, but it represents a clean break, a new hope, and a blank canvas.”
― Jason Soroski

“You've got to have brains to play dumb.”
― Helen Ellis, American Housewife

“The beginning is always today.”
― Mary Shelley

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
― Meister Eckhart

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off. ”
― Spider Robinson

“The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.”
― Bruce Coville

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot