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  • #1
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #4
    Edward Gorey
    “The helpful thought for which you look
    Is written somewhere in a book.”
    Edward Gorey

  • #5
    Dean Koontz
    “Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.”
    Dean Koontz, Innocence

  • #6
    “I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #7
    “Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.”
    Helen Exley

  • #8
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “I have drunken deep of joy,
    And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
    Percy Bysshe Shelley

  • #9
    Tracy Chevalier
    “I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”
    Tracy Chevalier

  • #10
    Jandy Nelson
    “I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”
    “So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.”
    He still won’t meet my eyes.”
    Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

  • #11
    Hilary Mantel
    “Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
    Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

  • #12
    Amy Tan
    “Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
    Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

  • #13
    Walter Tevis
    “I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.”
    Walter Tevis, Mockingbird

  • #14
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “I am awaiting
    perpetually and forever
    a renaissance of wonder”
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  • #15
    Thomas Merton
    “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. The mind that responds to the intellectual and spiritual values that lie hidden in a poem, a painting, or a piece of music, discovers a spiritual vitality that lifts it above itself, takes it out of itself, and makes it present to itself on a level of being that it did not know it could ever achieve.”
    Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
    tags: art

  • #16
    Pablo Picasso
    “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #17
    Isadora Duncan
    “You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
    Isadora Duncan, Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan

  • #18
    Frank McCourt
    “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

  • #19
    Federico Fellini
    “All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
    Federico Fellini

  • #20
    Edith Wharton
    “Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
    Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

  • #21
    Guy de Maupassant
    “Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
    Guy de Maupassant

  • #22
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

  • #23
    Kait Rokowski
    “Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”
    Kait Rokowski

  • #24
    Pablo Picasso
    “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #25
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.”
    Rumi

  • #26
    Sarah   Williams
    “Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

  • #27
    “I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time.”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda

  • #28
    Susan Sontag
    “My library is an archive of longings.”
    Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

  • #29
    Susan Sontag
    “Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
    Susan Sontag

  • #30
    Amy Bloom
    “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
    Amy Bloom



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