| "Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?" Mo Rocca |
| "Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough." Emily Dickinson |
| "The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honourable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest." Steven Brust |
| "My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water." Marilyn French |
| "People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped." Nadine Gordimer |
| "Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground." Kim Young-ha |
| "The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him." Roald Dahl |
| "Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| "The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey." Sarah Fielding |
| "French is the language that turns dirt into romance." Stephen King |
| "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." Gustave Flaubert |
| "A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking." Jerry Seinfeld |
| "Publishing your work is important...The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn." Tim Cahill |
| "I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it sound as though I was 'dumbing down' to the character. They are able to see events, people and places with an intensity and open mindedness that adults lack." An Na |
| "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution." J. K. Rowling |
| "Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'." Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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