| Quotes
from Books |
| 'This
is Pity,' he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder.
He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with
a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.
~ Howard Rouke from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
|
| To
say I love you - one must know how to say 'I'. ~ Howard Rouke
from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand |
| Go
confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you
have imagined. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| A person's
a person, no matter how small. ~ Dr. Seuss |
| They’re
certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled
to full respect for their opinions… but before I can live
with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one
thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s
conscience” ~ Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee |
| It's
a sin to kill a mockingbird. ~ Atticus Finch from To Kill
a Mockingbird by Harper Lee |
| Quotes
from Authors and/or About Books |
| You
can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough
to suit me. ~ C.S. Lewis |
| There
is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter
and bleed. ~ Ernest Hemingway |
| We
can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of
ignoring reality. ~ Ayn Rand |
| If
you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. ~
Mark Twain |
| Let
the readers do some of the work themselves. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Life
is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but
you can't erase it. ~ E.B. White |
| I'm
all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of
fools. Let's start with typewriters. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright |
|
Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.
~ Lemony Snicket |
| No
entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
~ Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu |
| A
bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that
people are still thinking. ~ Jerry Seinfeld |
| A
good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark
clouds than any other one thing. ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| The
one thing that doesnt abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
~ Harper Lee |
|
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. ~
Victor Hugo |
| The
worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't
write. ~ Anonymous |
| The
perception of beauty is a moral test. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| Keep
your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Life
is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
~ Isaac Asimov |
| It's
none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let
them think you were born that way. ~ Ernest Hemingway |
| There
are times when silence has the loudest voice. ~ Leroy Brownlow |
| A
book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought
without breaking it. ~ Edward P. Morgan |
| You
can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of
focus. ~ Mark Twain |
| The
worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself. ~ Mark
Twain |
| Always
do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
~ Mark Twain |
| Apparently
there is nothing that cannot happen today! ~ Mark Twain |
| Always
forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ~
Oscar Wilde |
| You
can't get to 'happily ever after' without turning the page.
~ Unknown |
| In
utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
~John Steinbeck |
| Stories
may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things,
and which can sometimes pay the rent. ~ Neil Gaiman |
| Books
are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so
beautifully furnishes a house. ~ Henry
Ward Beecher
|
| Books
are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the
most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient
of teachers. ~ Charles W. Eliot |
| You
don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people
to stop reading them. ~
Mohandas Gandhi |
| It
is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless
they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ~
Voltaire |
| The
most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~ E.E. Cummings |
| Life
is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live
it. ~ C. S. Lewis |
| To
think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is
the most difficult. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth |
| I
tend to scare myself. ~
Stephen King |
| A culture
of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle
of greatness. ~ Jim Collins |
| It's
funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands
& they'll do practically anything you want them to. ~
J. D. Salinger |
| I'm
sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. ~ J.
D. Salinger |
| To
read is to voyage through time. ~
Carl Sagan |
| The
pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who
shares the same books. ~ Stanislaw Lec |
| "Write
the Truth" ~ Virginia Harmen (when I told her I wanted
to be a writer and I did not know what I want to write). |
| A writer's
job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction
is as vivid as memories. ~ John Irving |
| It's
surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing
that their feelings toward other people are largely determined
by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable
within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
~ Sydney J. Harris,
1917-1986 - American Journalist |
| I don't
believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical.
It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal.
It respects the other person and learns from the other. I have
a lot to learn from other people. ~ Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan
Author and Journalist |
| You
are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if
you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare.~
Erica Jong, Interview Magazine, June 1987 |
| I wanted
to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer.
If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do
it whether you want to or not.~ Gore Vidal, Interview
Magazine, June 1987 |
| It
would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in
a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's
own identity. ~
Beatrice Webb |
| Fiction
reveals truths that reality obscures. ~
Jessamyn West |
| People
who keep journals have life twice. ~ Jessamyn West |
| The
things taught in colleges and schools are not an education,
but the means of education. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| There
are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading
them. ~ Ray Bradbury |
| You
don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people
to stop reading them. ~ Ray Bradbury |
| Get
busy living, or get busy dying. ~ Stephen King |
| Either
write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
~ Benjamin Franklin |
| Without
art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable!!
~ George Bernard Shaw |
| You
don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers. ~ Jerome
David Salinger |
