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  • #1
    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #2
    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #3
    Bernard Cornwell
    “But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death.”
    Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King

  • #4
    Kenzaburō Ōe
    “The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
    Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

  • #5
    Amy Tan
    “Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
    Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife

  • #6
    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #7
    Elizabeth Moon
    “Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”
    Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

  • #8
    Henrik Ibsen
    “It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life”
    Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts

  • #9
    Emily F. Murphy
    “Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.”
    Emily Murphy

  • #10
    Henry Fielding
    “I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.”
    Henry Fielding

  • #11
    Shūsaku Endō
    “Every weakness contains within itself a strength.”
    Shusaku Endo

  • #12
    Mario Vargas Llosa
    “One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
    Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

  • #13
    Giacomo Casanova
    “Be the flame, not the moth.”
    Giacomo Casanova

  • #14
    Cat Cora
    “Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure—they can be turned into wisdom.”
    Cat Cora

  • #15
    Lester Bangs
    “The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
    Lester Bangs

  • #16
    Bruno Schulz
    “My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.”
    Bruno Schulz

  • #17
    H.L. Mencken
    “I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
    H.L. Mencken

  • #18
    Ellen Goodman
    “We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ”
    Ellen Goodman

  • #19
    Lydia Cacho
    “I've never wanted a quiet life.”
    Lydia Cacho

  • #20
    Dany Laferrière
    “People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.”
    Dany Laferrière, I Am a Japanese Writer: A Novel

  • #21
    Kingsley Amis
    “If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
    Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

  • #22
    Cynthia Ozick
    “What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”
    Cynthia Ozick

  • #23
    Stanley Fish
    “The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
    Stanley Fish

  • #24
    Clive Barker
    “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
    Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

  • #25
    Ellen Glasgow
    “Human nature. I don’t like human nature, but I do like human beings.”
    Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

  • #26
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #27
    Elizabeth Goudge
    “In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.”
    Elizabeth Goudge

  • #28
    Gore Vidal
    “How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
    Gore Vidal, Julian

  • #29
    Roberto Bolaño
    “Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
    Roberto Bolaño, 2666

  • #30
    Annie Dillard
    “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
    Annie Dillard, The Living



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