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  • #1
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #2
    J.M. Barrie
    “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #3
    L. Frank Baum
    “There is no place like home.”
    L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    E.M. Forster
    “Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
    E.M. Forster

  • #6
    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    Anais Nin

  • #7
    Raymond Carver
    “Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
    Raymond Carver

  • #9
    John Cheever
    “Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
    John Cheever

  • #10
    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • #11
    Richard Wright
    “The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
    Richard Wright

  • #12
    Kindle Alexander
    “You've healed my soul. There's nothing I miss from that old life that I haven't found a hundred times better here with you.”
    Kindle Alexander, Texas Pride

  • #13
    “Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
    Colm Tóibín

  • #14
    Ezra Pound
    “There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”
    Ezra Pound

  • #15
    Helen Keller
    “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
    Helen Keller

  • #16
    Art Spiegelman
    “To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
    Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

  • #17
    Heidi Cullinan
    “Frankly, I’m awesome, and anybody who doesn’t agree should get out of my way.”
    Heidi Cullinan, Carry the Ocean

  • #18
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”
    Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon

  • #19
    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #20
    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #21
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #22
    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #23
    J.K. Rowling
    “Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #24
    “Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there's nothing sensible you can do with it.”
    Andrew Smith

  • #25
    Thomas Mann
    “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
    Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

  • #26
    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

  • #27
    John W. Campbell Jr.
    “History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
    John W. Campbell Jr.

  • #28
    Patricia Cornwell
    “Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
    Patricia Cornwell

  • #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

  • #31
    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    Charles M. Schulz



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