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  • #1
    Alice Hoffman
    “Books may well be the only true magic.”
    Alice Hoffman

  • #2
    Karen Marie Moning
    “I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.”
    Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

  • #3
    Kristy Brown
    “If you believe in your story, someone else will!”
    Kristy Brown

  • #4
    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    William Faulkner

  • #5
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #6
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #7
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #8
    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #10
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    George Eliot

  • #11
    “If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.”
    H.N. Turteltaub, The Sacred Land

  • #12
    Bill Cosby
    “A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.”
    Bill Cosby

  • #13
    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #14
    Kristy Brown
    “I feel the most alive when I write.”
    Kristy Brown, Awakenings

  • #15
    Jimi Hendrix
    “I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
    Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos

  • #16
    Helen Keller
    “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
    Helen Keller

  • #17
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #18
    Kristy Brown
    “Word count doesn't tell me when a story ends, my characters will tell me.”
    Kristy Brown

  • #19
    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #20
    L.M. Montgomery
    “It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
    Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #21
    L.M. Montgomery
    “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #22
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #23
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #24
    Lemony Snicket
    “If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

  • #25
    Mark Batterson
    “Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, ‘Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea, It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.”
    Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge

  • #26
    Anna Bayes
    “Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so.”
    Anna Bayes

  • #27
    Kristy Brown
    “Rejection is just a test to see how much you really want something.”
    Kristy Brown, Awakenings

  • #28
    “Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
    Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

  • #29
    Howard Thurman
    “Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
    Howard Thurman, The Living Wisdom of Howard Thurman: A Visionary for Our Time



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