Quotes - Kimberly Baker (The United States) Showing 1-14 of 14

#1

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#2

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#3

“That which yields is not always weak.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

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#4

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

tags: philosophy

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#5

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self

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#6

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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#7

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#8

“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

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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#9

“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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#10

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

tags: dharma, simplicity, writing

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#11

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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#12

“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

tags: writing

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#13

“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the Universe together into one garment for us.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: books, insight, knowledge, magic, understanding, universe

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#14

“Without the library, you have no civilization.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: civilization, libraries, ray-bradbury

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