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“Everything want to be loved.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.”
― Osamu Tezuka, Ode to Kirihito

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

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

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

“I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.”
― Alan Moore

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

“You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”
― Julia Quinn

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

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

“Nothing risque, nothing gained.”
― Alexander Woollcott

“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
― Germaine Greer

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
― Stephen King

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."

[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”
― John Green

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
― Willa Cather

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

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

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

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

“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

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“Reading is important.
Books are important.
Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)”
― Neil Gaiman

“To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many roads."

[American Libraries Magazine, May 28, 2009]”
― Jon Bing

“Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.”
― Willard Scott

“‎The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“A teenager deserves a library that recognizes reality. He needs an information source and study area that does not impose arbitrary, crippling rules on him. His library should recognize that dignity and silence are not prior requisites to learning […] He would like, needs, and deserves for other people to stop trying to protect him and allow him the right to choose information for himself […] Most of all the teenager needs people in libraries to recognize and accept him as a respectable human being.”
― Anne Osborn

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman