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  • #1
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #2
    Jane Austen
    “It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #3
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #4
    Isaac Marion
    “Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.”
    Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

  • #5
    Isaac Marion
    “It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we'll just never know. What the first song sounded like. How it felt to see the first photograph. Who kissed the first kiss, and if it was any good.”
    Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

  • #6
    Irving Stone
    “There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
    Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

  • #7
    John Connolly
    “For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”
    John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

  • #8
    Catherine Fisher
    “Underground, the stars are legend.”
    Catherine Fisher, Incarceron

  • #9
    Catherine Fisher
    “Only the man who has known freedom
    Can define his prison.”
    Catherine Fisher, Incarceron

  • #10
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #11
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #12
    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

  • #13
    Stephen  King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    Stephen King

  • #14
    Stephen  King
    “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
    Stephen King

  • #15
    Stephen  King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #16
    Stephen  King
    “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
    Stephen King

  • #17
    Stephen  King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    Stephen King

  • #18
    Stephen  King
    “A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
    Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

  • #19
    Stephen  King
    “Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
    Stephen King

  • #20
    Stephen  King
    “Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
    Stephen King, The Gunslinger

  • #21
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #22
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #23
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #25
    J.K. Rowling
    “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #26
    J.K. Rowling
    “The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #27
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #28
    “I love you the way a drowning man loves air. And it would destroy me to have you just a little.”
    Rae Carson, The Crown of Embers

  • #29
    Patrick Ness
    “Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.”
    Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

  • #30
    Patrick Ness
    “But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again. ”
    Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go



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