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  • #1
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #2
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #3
    Gail Carson Levine
    “A library is infinity under a roof.”
    Gail Carson Levine

  • #4
    Nicole Krauss
    “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
    Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

  • #5
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #6
    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    Henry Ward Beecherr

  • #7
    Margaret Atwood
    “Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
    Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

  • #8
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #9
    Douglas Adams
    “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

  • #10
    Steve  Martin
    “Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
    Steve Martin

  • #11
    Jules Verne
    “We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
    Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

  • #12
    Ishmael Reed
    “No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.”
    Ishmael Reed, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

  • #13
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #14
    Stéphane Mallarmé
    “Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
    Stéphane Mallarmé

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
    Mark Twain

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “All right, then, I'll go to hell.”
    Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
    Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
    Mark Twain

  • #23
    Groucho Marx
    “Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #24
    Groucho Marx
    “I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #25
    Groucho Marx
    “Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #26
    Art Spiegelman
    “Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.”
    Art Spiegelman

  • #27
    Grant Morrison
    “I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.”
    Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

  • #28
    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    Terry Pratchett, Jingo

  • #29
    Katherine Anne Porter
    “The past is never where you think you left it.”
    Katherine Anne Porter

  • #30
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions



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