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Amondo: Nobody likes to be made a fool of, Nona. Even fools don't like it.

"Few children have lived long enough to understand the world into which they were born. Perhaps few adults have either, but they at least have learned some bitter lessons."

Ogion: To hear, one must be silent.

Ogion: To heat, one must be silent.

Vetch: Though I am a servant, I am not your servant.

Ged: For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

Le Guin: It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

Maigret: An innocent man may have seeds of guilt in him just as a guilty man may be innocent at heart.

“It is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.”

Narrator: What did [Flagg] want? He wanted what evil men always want: to have power and use that power to make mischief.

Master Summoner: As a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do.

Jasper: Even foolery is dangerous in the hands of a fool.

Mrs. Waterbury: Things do happen in real life that are rather like books, sometimes.

"Sometimes, in moments of great need, we can do wonderful things — things that in ordinary life we could hardly even dream of doing."

Nesbit: Crying is catching, I believe, like measles and whooping-cough.

The Scarecrow: I won't say my friend the Emperor isn't all right for a tin man, but any judge of beauty can understand that a Scarecrow is far more artistic and refined.
The Tin Woodman: You are too soft and flimsy.
The Scarecrow: You are too hard and stiff.

Jinjur: All persons are usually judged by the shapes in which they appear to the eyes of others.

Tommy Kwikstep: Speech without thought is dangerous.

Woot the Wanderer: Dangers, when they cannot be avoided, are often quite interesting.

Adams: Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

King: You can't please all of the readers all of the time; you can't please even some of the readers all of the time, but you really ought to try to please at least some of the readers some of the time. I think William Shakespeare said that.

King: If you continue to write fiction, every character you create is partly you.

King: Write what you like, then imbue it with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of life, friendship, relationships, sex, and work. Especially work. People love to read about work. God knows why, but they do.

King: Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

King: If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut

King: While it is impossible to make a competent writer out of a bad writer, and while it is equally impossible to make a great writer out of a good one, it is possible, with lots of hard work, dedication, and timely help, to make to make a good writer out of a merely competent one.

King: I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, there are lots of bad writers.

King: The adverb is not your friend.

King: Grammar is ... the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.