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  • #1
    Edward Gorey
    “The helpful thought for which you look
    Is written somewhere in a book.”
    Edward Gorey

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    T.S. Eliot
    “Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #4
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?
    Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

  • #5
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    Sarah Williams

  • #6
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #7
    T.H. White
    “The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
    T.H. White, The Once and Future King

  • #8
    Nicholson Baker
    “I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
    Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

  • #9
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

  • #10
    Henry Miller
    “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
    Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

  • #11
    Alice Hoffman
    “Books may well be the only true magic.”
    Alice Hoffman

  • #12
    Orhan Pamuk
    “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
    Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

  • #13
    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    Anne Tyler

  • #14
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #15
    Walter Tevis
    “I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
    Walter Tevis

  • #16
    Nora Ephron
    “Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #17
    Alexander Pope
    “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
    Alexander Pope

  • #18
    J.K. Rowling
    “Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #20
    Amy Tan
    “Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
    Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

  • #21
    The world was hers for the reading.
    “The world was hers for the reading.”
    Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  • #22
    Katherine Boo
    “Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.”
    Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

  • #23
    Nathan Filer
    “Reading is a bit like hallucinating.”
    Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

  • #24
    V.S. Naipaul
    “The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
    V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

  • #25
    Gail Carson Levine
    “A library is infinity under a roof.”
    Gail Carson Levine

  • #26
    Douglas Adams
    “For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #27
    Shel Silverstein
    “I cannot go to school today"
    Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
    "I have the measles and the mumps,
    A gash, a rash and purple bumps.

    My mouth is wet, my throat is dry.
    I'm going blind in my right eye.
    My tonsils are as big as rocks,
    I've counted sixteen chicken pox.

    And there's one more - that's seventeen,
    And don't you think my face looks green?
    My leg is cut, my eyes are blue,
    It might be the instamatic flu.

    I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
    I'm sure that my left leg is broke.
    My hip hurts when I move my chin,
    My belly button's caving in.

    My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,
    My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
    My toes are cold, my toes are numb,

    I have a sliver in my thumb.

    My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
    I hardly whisper when I speak.
    My tongue is filling up my mouth,

    I think my hair is falling out.

    My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,
    My temperature is one-o-eight.
    My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,

    There's a hole inside my ear.

    I have a hangnail, and my heart is ...
    What? What's that? What's that you say?
    You say today is .............. Saturday?

    G'bye, I'm going out to play!”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #28
    Lauren Myracle
    “I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.”
    Lauren Myracle

  • #29
    Emma Donoghue
    “Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
    Emma Donoghue, Room

  • #30
    Willa Cather
    “The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
    Willa Cather



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