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  • #1
    Stephen  King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    Stephen King

  • #2
    Dodie Smith
    “I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”
    Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

  • #3
    Stephen  King
    “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

  • #4
    Marvin Minsky
    “General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.”
    Marvin Minsky

  • #5
    John Barnes
    “I’ve been thinking,” he said. “Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.”
    John Barnes, Tales of the Madman Underground

  • #6
    Daniel Defoe
    “Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised”
    Daniel Defoe

  • #7
    Daniel Defoe
    “Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
    Daniel Defoe

  • #8
    Stephen  King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    Stephen King

  • #9
    Stephen  King
    “I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
    Stephen King

  • #10
    Emily Dickinson
    “This is my letter to the world
    That never wrote to me”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #11
    J.K. Rowling
    “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #12
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
    Ambrose Bierce

  • #13
    Brian Tracy
    “Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.”
    Brian Tracy

  • #14
    William S. Burroughs
    “Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
    William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
    Mark Twain

  • #16
    Lou Holtz
    “Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.”
    Lou Holtz

  • #17
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Speak only if it improves upon the silence.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #18
    Orson Scott Card
    “Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”
    Orson Scott Card

  • #19
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

  • #20
    Dan    Brown
    “By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.”
    Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

  • #21
    Anne Fortier
    “He always says that those who control the present can rewrite the past.”
    Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood



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