Quotes - Cassandra Harmon (goodreadscomharmonc) (Lewisville, TX) Showing 1-30 of 56

#1

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

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#2

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#3

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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#4

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

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#5

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

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#6

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#7

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#8

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#9

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: imagination, inspiration, writing

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#10

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

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#11

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing

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#12

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing

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#13

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: history, humor, writing

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#14

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

tags: writing

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#15

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

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#16

“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

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#17

“You can make anything by writing.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: writing

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#18

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
― Meg Cabot

tags: writing

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#19

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: literature

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#20

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: growth, heart, life, suffering

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#21

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: communication, psychology

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#22

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: crying, heartfelt, shame, sorrow, tears

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#23

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: closing-line, last-words, self-sacrifice

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#24

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: giving, helping-others

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#25

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: crying, shame, sorrow, tears

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#26

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: humor, laughter

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#27

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: first-sentence, opening-lines

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#28

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

tags: friendship, joy, pain

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#29

“You have been the last dream of my soul.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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#30

“Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: homecoming

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