Janet Bly > Janet's Quotes

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“How come when I’m with you, life seems to whiz”
― Stephen Bly, The Final Chapter of Chance McCall

“Every adversity has value if one searches for it.”
― Stephen Bly, Strangers & Pilgrims