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  • #1
    Paul Simon
    “It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
    Paul Simon

  • #2
    Norman Mailer
    “Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
    Norman Mailer

  • #3
    Roland Barthes
    “I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
    Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

  • #4
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #5
    Jamaica Kincaid
    “There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.”
    Jamaica Kincaid

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #9
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #10
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #11
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #12
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #13
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #14
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #15
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #16
    Louise Erdrich
    “When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
    Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

  • #17
    David Estes
    “If they ever create an award for best conversationalist, let me know and I’ll apply. Until then, have a sip from my bottle of I-Don’t-Give-A-Crap and keep on walking.--Laney”
    David Estes, Boil

  • #18
    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    Mary Oliver

  • #19
    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #20
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #21
    Margaret Mitchell
    “After all, tomorrow is another day!”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #22
    Annie Proulx
    “You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
    Annie Proulx

  • #23
    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

  • #24
    Dean Koontz
    “Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.”
    Dean Koontz, Innocence

  • #25
    “Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
    Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

  • #26
    Elie Wiesel
    “Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
    Elie Wiesel, Night

  • #27
    Robert  Beatty
    “She was a failure. That's what she thought. She had come to the forest to see the world, but all she found was wretchedness.”
    Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak



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