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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Josh Malerman
    “It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.”
    Josh Malerman, Bird Box

  • #3
    Nicole Krauss
    “When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
    Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

  • #4
    A.A. Milne
    “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #5
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe

  • #6
    Margaret Wise Brown
    “Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.”
    Margaret Wise Brown

  • #7
    D.H. Lawrence
    “I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”
    D.H. Lawrence

  • #8
    China Miéville
    “Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.”
    China Miéville, The City & the City

  • #9
    Stephen  King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    Stephen King, Different Seasons

  • #10
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #11
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #12
    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

  • #13
    Lyndall Gordon
    “It was her religion to make the best of everything.”
    Lyndall Gordon, Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft – The Unconventional Genius Who Founded Modern Feminism and Influenced Political Philosophy

  • #14
    Wole Soyinka
    “A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
    Wole Soyinka

  • #15
    Susan Sontag
    “I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
    Susan Sontag

  • #16
    Lorrie Moore
    “A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
    Lorrie Moore

  • #17
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #18
    Langston Hughes
    “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #19
    Constantin Stanislavski
    “In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel”
    Constantin Stanislavski, Creating A Role

  • #20
    Constantin Stanislavski
    “Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.”
    Constantin Stanislavski

  • #21
    Constantin Stanislavski
    “Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.”
    Constantin Stanislavski, My Life In Art

  • #22
    Mo Willems
    “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
    Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

  • #23
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Art is not a mirror held up to reality
    but a hammer with which to shape it.”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #24
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
    Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • #25
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #26
    Aristotle
    “Hope is a waking dream.”
    Aristotle

  • #27
    Jean Genet
    “Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
    Jean Genet

  • #28
    Khaled Hosseini
    “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #29
    Elizabeth Moon
    “Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”
    Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

  • #30
    Ben Okri
    “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
    Ben Okri



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