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  • #1
    D.W. Buffa
    “No one likes to admit it, but Hollywood is the only place you don’t get locked up for being crazy.”
    D.W. Buffa, The Last Man: A Novel

  • #2
    Abraham Sutzkever
    “If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”
    Abraham Sutzkever

  • #3
    Herman Melville
    “A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.”
    Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

  • #4
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #5
    Nicholas Sparks
    “The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that is! (Jamie Sullivan)”
    Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Dick Francis
    “Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.”
    Dick Francis, To the Hilt

  • #9
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    Charlaine Harris

  • #10
    Shannon Hale
    “I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
    Shannon Hale

  • #11
    Mike Bond
    “anyone who can look up at the stars and not feel the power of God probably cannot feel much at all.”
    Mike Bond, The Drum That Beats Within Us

  • #12
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    “Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.”
    Benedict Cumberbatch

  • #13
    A.J. Finn
    “My head was once a filing cabinet. Now it’s a flurry of papers, floating on a draft.”
    A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window

  • #14
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #15
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #16
    Megan Goldin
    “Pretend inferiority and encourage their arrogance.’ Sun Tzu, The Art of War.”
    Megan Goldin, The Escape Room

  • #17
    Megan Goldin
    “Yes, I have been a victim of a sexual assault. Well, probably several really. Funny how we were conditioned to accept these situations as unpleasant instead of outrageous.”
    Megan Goldin, The Night Swim

  • #18
    Megan Goldin
    “When school kids are shot by a random shooter, nobody asks whether the victims should have taken more precautions. Nobody suggests that maybe the victims should have skipped school that day. Nobody ever blames the victims. So why is it that when women are attacked, the onus is on them?”
    Megan Goldin, The Night Swim

  • #19
    Megan Goldin
    “To tell you the truth, I don't get how we can almost unanimously agree that murder is wrong, yet when it comes to rape some people still see shades of gray.”
    Megan Goldin, The Night Swim

  • #20
    P.J. Tracy
    “If anyone ever told five-year-olds the truth about life, he thought, there’d be a rash of kindergarten suicides. ”
    P.J. Tracy, Live Bait

  • #21
    P.J. Tracy
    “There are no nonsmokers in this business. Just people trying to quit, and people who haven’t started yet.”
    P.J. Tracy, Dead Run

  • #22
    Jack McDevitt
    “We live along the shores of night,
    At the edge of the eternal sea.”
    Jack McDevitt, Infinity Beach

  • #23
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

  • #24
    James Joyce
    “Shut your eyes and see.”
    James Joyce

  • #25
    Astrid Lindgren
    “A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
    Astrid Lindgren



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