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“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

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

“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”
― Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

“The sunlight slipped over the polished leaves.”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“I found when I had finished my new lecture that it was a very good house, only the architect had unfortunately omitted the stairs.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau

“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In my family, a book can be a life raft.”
― Alice Hoffman, Survival Lessons

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“To become more creative is to allow yourself the opportunity to become a playful, joyous child, to be courageous and not afraid to let go, and fun with your writing. By allowing your child to come out and play when you first begin to write, you'll be less judgemental, constricted, and rigid about your writing, and hopefully, the words will flow.”
― Rachel Friedman Ballon, Blueprint for Writing: A Writer's Guide to Creativity, Craft & Career

“She brutalized flour and butter, she visited wartime atrocities to milk and yeast. She committed acts of crumpet.”
― T. Kingfisher, Toad Words and Other Stories