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#1

“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG

tags: crazy, funny, words

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#2

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

37971 likes

#3

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

3111 likes

#4

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

tags: katharine-hepburn

4417 likes

#5

“There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: fandom, fanfiction, fantasy, humour

974 likes

#6

“Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.”
― Kristine Kathryn Rusch

tags: creative-writing, publishing, writer, writing-life

15 likes

#7

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

tags: books, e-readers, kindle, reading

2712 likes

#8

“Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

tags: censorship

47 likes

#9

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[Blog post, March 10, 2014]”
― K.J. Charles

tags: authors, bullying, censorship, criticism, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-opinion, freedom-of-speech, opinions, readers, reviewers, reviewing, reviews

115 likes

#10

“Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

311 likes

#11

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: censorship

2654 likes

#12

“A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

39 likes

#13

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

2443 likes

#14

“Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then? ”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

232 likes

#15

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

tags: books, reading, rights

6984 likes

#16

“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

23435 likes

#17

“Looking ahead of me there were people of all ages, sizes, and colors in the line.”
― L.P. Snyder, 3 Hour Tour

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