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  Books Quotes - Some books leave us free and some books make us free   “Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.” ― Melissa Marr   “Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can.” ― Gloria Mallette   “Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.” ― Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots   “One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.” ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars   “The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.” ― Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind   “All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.” ― John Ruskin, Sesame ...

  Books Quotes - It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids   “There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored.” ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart   “Remember, the past need not become our future as well.” ― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris   “It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weig...

  Books Quotes - What we become depends on what we read   “Quiet people have the loudest minds.” ― Stephen King   “Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.” ― Robertson Davies   “Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. ” ― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red   “Literature is my Utopia” ― Helen Keller   “For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” ― Elie Wiesel, Night   “In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a ...

  Writing Quotes - Tears are words that need to be written   “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young   “Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.” ― Neil Gaiman   “The first draft of anything is shit.” ― Ernest Hemingway   “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” ― Ernest Hemingway   “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” ― Stephen King   “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” ― Anne Frank   “you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft   “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunatel...

  Writing Quotes - History will be kind to me for I intend to write it   “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” ― Robert Frost   “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You   “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” ― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations   “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” ― Anton Chekhov   “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” ― Stephen King   “The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than...

  Writing Quotes - We write to taste life twice “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time   “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings   “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.” ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye   “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” ― Toni Morrison   “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ― Ernest Hemingway   “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you writ...