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  • #1
    Karen Miller
    “In this office we do not have problems. We have interesting developments. We have challenges. If we absolute must we may, on occasion, have a slight difficulty. But under no circumstances whatsoever do we have problems.”
    Karen Miller, The Innocent Mage

  • #2
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #3
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #4
    Douglas Adams
    “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

  • #5
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Diggers

  • #6
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “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

  • #7
    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #8
    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    Terry Pratchett, Jingo

  • #9
    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #10
    Terry Pratchett
    “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
    Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

  • #11
    Rick Riordan
    “With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
    Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

  • #12
    C.S. Lewis
    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #13
    J.K. Rowling
    “Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?"
    "Yes."
    "You called her a liar?"
    "Yes."
    "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?"
    "Yes."
    "Have a biscuit, Potter.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #14
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #15
    Terry Pratchett
    “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

  • #16
    Terry Pratchett
    “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #17
    Hilari Bell
    “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people, some of the time, but you can fool yourself anytime you need to badly enough.”
    Hilari Bell, Navohar
    tags: humor

  • #18
    Hilari Bell
    “...crazy people must have an advantage when it comes to doing crazy things.”
    Hilari Bell, The Last Knight

  • #19
    Simon R. Green
    “Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.”
    Simon R Green

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    Mark Twain

  • #21
    Scott  Meyer
    “I find that stubbornness often beats intelligence eventually. Stubbornness will beat anything eventually. That’s the whole point of stubbornness.”
    Scott Meyer, Spell or High Water

  • #22
    Scott  Meyer
    “You know, the less you talk, the more people assume that what you’re not saying is important.”
    Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard

  • #23
    Scott  Meyer
    “All of the worst books I ever read were published,”
    Scott Meyer, An Unwelcome Quest

  • #24
    Raymond E. Feist
    “Life is problems. Living is solving problems.”
    Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

  • #25
    Raymond E. Feist
    “A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.”
    Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

  • #26
    Raymond E. Feist
    “Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it mustï»� be the only solution.”
    Raymond E. Feist

  • #27
    Raymond E. Feist
    “I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.”
    Raymond E. Feist

  • #28
    Daniel O'Malley
    “This should be a pleasant little interview. All I have to do is put on my scary face."
    "You have a scary face?" Ingrid sounded skeptical.
    "Yes," said Myfanwy indignantly. "I have a very scary face."
    Ingrid surveyed her for a moment. "You may wish to take off the cardigan then, Rook Thomas," she advised tactfully. "The flowers on the pocket detract somewhat from your menace.”
    Daniel O'Malley, The Rook

  • #29
    “I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed.”
    Garth Nix, Clariel

  • #30
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind



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