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  • #1
    Delia Ephron
    “Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.”
    Delia Ephron, Sister Mother Husband Dog: Etc.

  • #2
    Owen Wister
    “Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...”
    Owen Wister, The Virginian

  • #3
    Dean Koontz
    “Intuition is seeing with the soul.”
    Dean Koontz

  • #4
    Frida Kahlo
    “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
    Frida Kahlo

  • #5
    Jean Craighead George
    “Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.”
    Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain

  • #6
    James M. Cain
    “If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either”
    James M. Cain

  • #7
    Luigi Pirandello
    “Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”
    Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

  • #8
    Anthony Bourdain
    “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”
    Anthony Bourdain

  • #9
    Erich Segal
    “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
    Erich Segal

  • #10
    Christian Bauman
    “Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.”
    Christian Bauman

  • #11
    Yasunari Kawabata
    “Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
    Yasunari Kawabata

  • #12
    Carol Shields
    “Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
    Carol Shields

  • #13
    Colette
    “Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
    Colette

  • #14
    Douglas Preston
    “We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
    Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

  • #15
    Masaru Emoto
    “To give your positive or negative attention to something is a way of giving energy. The most damaging form of behavior is withholding your attention.”
    Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water

  • #16
    “Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.”
    Thea Dorn

  • #17
    André Maurois
    “The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”
    Andre Maurois

  • #18
    Rose Tremain
    “In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.”
    Rose Tremain

  • #19
    Martha Stewart
    “I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.”
    Martha Stewart

  • #20
    Witold Gombrowicz
    “Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.”
    Witold Gombrowicz

  • #21
    Eiji Yoshikawa
    “It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.”
    Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

  • #22
    Rachel Simmons
    “When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having.”
    Rachel Simmons, The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence

  • #23
    David Walliams
    “All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.”
    David Walliams, Gangsta Granny

  • #24
    Ma Jian
    “Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.”
    Ma Jian, Red Dust: A Path Through China

  • #25
    Ted Hughes
    “What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.”
    Ted Hughes

  • #26
    Thea Astley
    “The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself.”
    Thea Astley

  • #27
    “Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.”
    Will Cuppy

  • #28
    Alan Paton
    “I have always found that actively loving
    saves one from a morbid preoccupation
    with the shortcomings of society.”
    Alan Paton

  • #29
    Gretel Ehrlich
    “Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.”
    Gretel Ehrlich

  • #30
    Gloria Naylor
    “But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.”
    Gloria Naylor



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