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  • #1
    Jeanette Winterson
    “Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
    Jeanette Winterson

  • #2
    Andre Dubus III
    “The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.”
    Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog

  • #3
    “Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
    Sara Henderson

  • #4
    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    H.G. Wells

  • #5
    Nora Roberts
    “Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
    Nora Roberts, Vision in White

  • #6
    R. David Lankes
    “To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community.”
    R. David Lankes

  • #7
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    P.G. Wodehouse

  • #8
    E.Y. Harburg
    “Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.”
    Yip Harburg

  • #9
    Guy Gavriel Kay
    “There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
    Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #11
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
    Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

  • #12
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    Charlaine Harris

  • #13
    Saul Bellow
    “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #14
    Agatha Christie
    “Very few of us are what we seem.”
    Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

  • #15
    Philippe Ariès
    “A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
    Philippe Ariès

  • #16
    Emily Dickinson
    “Forever is composed of nows.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #17
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    Arthur C. Clarke

  • #18
    James  Burke
    “When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
    James Burke

  • #19
    Nicholson Baker
    “Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
    Nicholson Baker

  • #20
    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

  • #21
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • #22
    Vicki Baum
    “There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
    Vicki Baum, Ballerina

  • #23
    Mo Yan
    “Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
    Mo Yan, Red Sorghum

  • #24
    Chelsea Handler
    “Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
    Chelsea Handler, Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me

  • #25
    Katherine Mansfield
    “Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.”
    Katherine Mansfield

  • #26
    John Updike
    “It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
    John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

  • #27
    Giacomo Casanova
    “Be the flame, not the moth.”
    Giacomo Casanova

  • #28
    Cynthia Ozick
    “What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”
    Cynthia Ozick

  • #29
    Kathy Acker
    “If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
    Kathy Acker

  • #30
    Hervé Le Tellier
    “There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
    Hervé Le Tellier



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