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#1

“Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

tags: books, libraries

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#2

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

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#3

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: criticism, humor, writing

2051 likes

#4

“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

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#5

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
― Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

tags: friendship

5454 likes

#6

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing

5986 likes

#7

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

tags: writing

3629 likes

#8

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

tags: reading, writing

3263 likes

#9

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
― James Michener

tags: writing

1337 likes

#10

“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”
― Michael Cunningham

tags: life, on-fiction, writing

1196 likes

#11

“When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.”
― Rita Mae Brown

tags: libraries, reading

486 likes

#12

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

tags: motivation

4475 likes

#13

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing

4557 likes

#14

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

tags: writing

6214 likes

#15

“The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.”
― Bjarne Stroustrup

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#16

“To build up a library is to create a life. It’s never just a random collection of books.”
― Carlos María Domínguez

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#17

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”
― Harold Howe

tags: education, libraries, library, school

365 likes

#18

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
― Shelby Foote

1332 likes

#19

“Do you have the patience to wait
Till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
Till the right action arises by itself?”
― Lao tzu

tags: eastern-philosophy

240 likes

#20

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

918 likes

#21

“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”
― Joan Didion

513 likes

#22

“I don't know what I think until I write it down.”
― Joan Didion

340 likes

#23

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
― E.B. White

837 likes

#24

“Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.”
― E.B. White

237 likes

#25

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women

6527 likes

#26

“So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?”
― Nora Ephron

tags: movie-screenplay

161 likes

#27

“The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

101 likes

#28

“A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: books, fiction, on-fiction, stories, writing

393 likes

#29

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: books, journey, reading, travel

5249 likes

#30

“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: books, reading, travel

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