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  • #1
    Roald Dahl
    “The little pig began to pray
    But Wolfie blew his house away.
    He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham!
    Oh what a lucky wolf I am!"
    And though he ate the pig quite fast,
    He carefully kept the tail till last.”
    Roald Dahl, Revolting Rhymes

  • #2
    Glen Cook
    “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
    Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

  • #3
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.”
    Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

  • #4
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
    Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

  • #5
    The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
    “The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
    William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts

  • #6
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #7
    Guy de Maupassant
    “There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
    Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant

  • #8
    Ogden Nash
    “A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.”
    Ogden Nash, The Private Dining-room and Other Verses
    tags: dog, door

  • #9
    Audre Lorde
    “Your silence will not protect you.”
    Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

  • #10
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
    H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

  • #11
    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

  • #12
    Orson Scott Card
    “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
    Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

  • #13
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #14
    François Mauriac
    “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
    Francois Mauriac

  • #15
    Anaïs Nin
    “Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
    Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934

  • #16
    Diane Duane
    “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
    Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

  • #17
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    Arthur C. Clarke

  • #20
    Ogden Nash
    “Tonight’s December thirty-first,
    Something is about to burst.
    The clock is crouching, dark and small,
    Like a time bomb in the hall.
    Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
    Duck! Here comes another year!”
    Ogden Nash, Collected Verse from 1929 On

  • #21
    Neil Gaiman
    “Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #22
    Roald Dahl
    “Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #23
    Isaac Asimov
    “Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
    Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

  • #24
    Julia Child
    “I think every woman should have a blowtorch.”
    Julia Child

  • #25
    Libba Bray
    “Women who have power are always feared.”
    Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

  • #26
    Annie Dillard
    “One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...give it, give it all, give it now.”
    Annie Dillard

  • #27
    Jenny Joseph
    “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.”
    Jenny Joseph, Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

  • #28
    Terry Pratchett
    “The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.”
    Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

  • #29
    LeVar Burton
    “For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
    LeVar Burton

  • #30
    Orhan Pamuk
    “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
    Orhan Pamuk, Snow



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