Big Books of 2026

Daniel Ferguson > Daniel's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 134
« previous 1 3 4 5
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Stephen King
    “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
    13095 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Stephen King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
    tags: life
    9513 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Stephen King
    “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
    6983 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Paul Simon
    “It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
    ― Paul Simon
    1474 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Nelson DeMille
    “The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
    ― Nelson De Mille
    2246 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
    36840 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Paul Goat Allen
    “Why be normal when you can be paranormal!”
    ― Paul Goat Allen
    9 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Terry Pratchett
    “Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
    tags: humor, paraphrased
    237 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
    6661 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: truth
    16214 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen
    tags: carpe-diem, death, enjoy-life, life, misattributed, time
    589 likes

    • like
  • #12
    George Carlin
    “May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: benediction, evil, goodwill, humor, inspirational, wishes
    3520 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
    11718 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
    21433 likes

    • like
  • #15
    John Green
    “It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    7794 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: depressing, inspiration
    140 likes

    • like
  • #17
    John Green
    “If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.”
    ― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
    tags: a-cheertastic-christmas-miracle, john-green, let-it-snow
    109 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    5457 likes

    • like
  • #19
    John Grisham
    “Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
    ― John Grisham, The Rainmaker
    tags: be-yourself, courtroom-drama, crime
    3193 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus
    4782 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Mo Willems
    “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
    ― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
    tags: fairy-tales, humor, humorous, philosophy, psychology
    4135 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Brandon Sanderson
    “They looked so dangerous, like alligators. Really fast alligators wearing black. Ninja alligators. I decided not to use that one on Megan.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart
    69 likes

    • like
  • #23
    William Ritter
    “Monsters are easy, Miss Rook. They're monsters. But a monster in a suit? That's basically just a wicked man, and a wicked man is a more dangerous thing by far.”
    ― William Ritter, Jackaby
    tags: abigail-rook, jackaby, man, monsters
    66 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Mo Willems
    “The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?”
    ― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
    tags: chocolate-pudding, goldilocks, mo-willems
    25 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Rick Riordan
    “With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
    tags: nico
    13377 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Rick Riordan
    “Life is only precious because it ends, kid.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
    tags: mortality
    1809 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
    23460 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things
    190 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: truth
    6765 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
    16290 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3 4 5
All Quotes



Tags From Daniel’s Quotes

reading
writing
life
books
fantasy
humor
paraphrased
imagination
literature
stories
truth
carpe-diem
death
enjoy-life
misattributed
time
benediction
evil
goodwill
inspirational
wishes
culture
open-mind
thinking
depressing
inspiration
a-cheertastic-christmas-miracle
john-green
let-it-snow
be-yourself
courtroom-drama
crime
fairy-tales
humorous
philosophy
psychology
abigail-rook
jackaby
man
monsters
chocolate-pudding
goldilocks
mo-willems
nico
mortality
scifi
misattributed-mark-twain