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  • #1
    Dawn French
    “Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman”
    Dawn French, A Tiny Bit Marvellous

  • #2
    Kerry Greenwood
    “If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!”
    Kerry Greenwood

  • #3
    Helen Simonson
    “...I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.”
    Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

  • #4
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #5
    Helen Simonson
    “You are a wise man, Major, and I will consider your advice with great care—and humility." He finished his tea and rose from the table to go to his room. "But I must ask you, do you really understand what it means to be in love with an unsuitable woman?"

    "My dear boy," said the Major. "Is there really any other kind?”
    Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

  • #6
    Dodie Smith
    “There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”
    Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

  • #7
    Lewis Carroll
    “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #8
    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #9
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #10
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “The beginning is always today.”
    Mary Wollstonecraft

  • #11
    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    Paul Terry

  • #12
    D.H. Lawrence
    “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
    D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

  • #13
    Marian Keyes
    “Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.”
    Marian Keyes, Watermelon

  • #14
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #15
    Jane Austen
    “Every savage can dance.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #16
    Brom
    “Then let us go and be terrible.”
    Brom, Krampus: The Yule Lord

  • #17
    Stephen Fry
    “It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."

    [I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]”
    Stephen Fry

  • #18
    Judy Blume
    “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
    Judy Blume

  • #19
    John Green
    “Your now is not your forever.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #20
    John Green
    “True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #21
    Judy Blume
    “Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.”
    Judy Blume

  • #22
    Judy Blume
    “Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need”
    Judy Blume



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