Quotes

ts Quote a Day

Reading

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Charles Baudelaire

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.
China Miéville

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Roald Dahl

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

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Italo Calvino

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
C.S. Lewis

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
Madeleine L'Engle

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
Isabel Allende

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
Roberto Bolaño

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
Cyril Connolly

Writing

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
William Wordsworth

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
Annie Proulx

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.
Beatrix Potter

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.
N. Scott Momaday

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.
Henry Green

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
Robert Louis Stevenson

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.
Audrey Niffenegger

We may never know when the right world will transform a person's life.
Philip White

We are the hero of our own story.
Mary McCarthy

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.
Phyllis A. Whitney

Poetry

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.
Greg Bear

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost

Thought-provoking

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.
Nelson DeMille

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
John Green

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
Chinua Achebe

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
William Faulkner

War is what happens when language fails.
Margaret Atwood

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
Stephen Hawking

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Anaïs Nin

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.
Jonathan Kellerman

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.
Thomas Wolfe

I am a cage, in search of a bird.
Franz Kafka

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.
H.G. Wells

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
Victor Hugo

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
Elie Wiesel

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
Chuck Palahniuk

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford

Prejudices are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
Charlotte Bronte

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
Charles Brower

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus

You can't step in the same river twice. Each time it is different, and so are you.
Alice Walker

All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.
David Walliams