Amy

Amy’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (589)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (993)
animal-books‎ (62)
fantasy‎ (51)
nonfiction‎ (43)
horror‎ (36)
sci-fi‎ (33)
90s-books‎ (28)
humor‎ (22)
historical-fiction‎ (21)
religion‎ (21)

picture-books‎ (18)
slice-of-life‎ (17)
poetry‎ (15)
fiction-not-fantasy‎ (14)
guidebooks‎ (12)
cats‎ (11)
fairy-tales‎ (11)
old-books‎ (11)
graphic-novels‎ (8)
choose-your-own-adventure‎ (7)
mice‎ (7)
wolves‎ (7)

foxes‎ (5)
mermaid‎ (5)
uplifting‎ (5)
dogs‎ (4)
fill-in-the-blank‎ (4)
lgtbq‎ (4)
would-you-rather-books‎ (4)
2000s-books‎ (3)
royal-diaries‎ (3)
canines‎ (2)
dinosaurs‎ (2)
egypt‎ (2)

game-books‎ (2)
manga‎ (2)
self-help‎ (2)
angels‎ (1)
birds‎ (1)
childhood-books‎ (1)
christmas‎ (1)
dragons‎ (1)
funny‎ (1)
grief‎ (1)
horses‎ (1)
mermaids‎ (1)

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Amy’s Quotes

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
― Simone Weil

tags: ethics, evil, good, morality, reality

710 likes

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

16940 likes

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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