A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.  (Henry Ward Beecher)

...books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.."   (Inkheart by Cornelia Funke)

A catalog is where cats come from.  It's a big book full of pictures of hundreds and hundreds of cats.  And when you open it up, all the cats jump out and start running around.  (Ann Cameron,  said by Julian, "Catalog Cats" from The Stories Julian Tells)

The difference between fiction and reality?  Fiction has to make sense.  (Tom Clancy)

Easy reading is damn hard writing.  (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Eighty percent of success is showing up.  (Woody Allen)

Everyday US libraries circulate nearly 4 times more items than amazon handles.  (infoworld.com)

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.  (Stephen King)

Good children's literature appeals ot only to the child in the adult, but ot the adult in the child.  (anonymous)

How many a man have dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book?  (Thoreau)

42% of college graduates never read another book after college.  (www.jenkinsgroupinc.com)

I have always come to life after coming to books.  (Jorge Luis Borges)

I like good strong words that mean something.   (Jo in Little Women, Louisa May Alcott)

I suspect that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.  (E.M. Forster)

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody is not thinking.  (George Patton)

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.  (Lord Byron)

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.  (Emily Dickinson)

If my doctor told me I had only six months to live, I wouldn't brood.  I'd type a little faster.  (Isaac Asimov)

If you want your children to be brilliant, read them fairy tales.  If you want them to be geniuses, read them more fairy tales.  (Albert Einstein)

In order to write a book it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write.  Therein lies the difficulty.  (Edward Abbey)

It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.  (C.J. Cherryh)

Knowledge is the food of the soul.  (Plato)

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.  (John F. Kennedy)

Midnight dreary .. geek version of  The Raven   http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/midnight.dreary.html

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.  (Plutarch)

Modern SF is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.  (Isaac Asimov)

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.  (Willa Cather)

A normal adolescent isn't a normal adolescent if he acts normal.  (Judith Viorst)

One generation plants the trees another enjoys the hedge.  (Chinese proverb)

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.  (Steven Spielberg)

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.  Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.  (Groucho Marx)

Patterson Page Turner Awards  http://www.pattersonpageturner.org/

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.  (John Steinbeck)

Rainy days should be spend at home with a cup of tea and a good book.  (Bill Watterson)

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.  (Ralph Gerard)

Shakespeare Insult Kit    http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/shake_rule.html

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.  (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Stories are the most important thing in the world.  Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.   (Philip Pullman)

Teachers open the door.  You enter by yourself.  (Chinese proverb)

There ain't nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I'd knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn't a tackled it, and ain't agoing to no more.  (Last paragraph of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain.)

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island.   (Walt Disney)

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.  (Emily Dickinson)

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time it to meet an old one.  (Chinese saying)

Words do wonderful things.  They sound purr.  they can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine.  They can sing, sass, singe.  they can churn, check, channelize.  They can be a hup 2,3,4.  (Gwendolyn Brooks)

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.  (Rudyard Kipling)

A writer doesn't solve problems. He allows them to emerge.  (Friedrich Durrenmatt)

The writer is an explorer.  Evry step is an advance into a new land.  (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

A writer needs three things:  experience, observation and imagination.  (William Faulkner)

Writing is like anything--baseball, playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails.  The more you work at it, the better you get.  But it seems to take a longer time to get better at hammering nails.  (Betsy Byars)

You can't wait for inspiration.  You have to go after it with a club.  (Jack London)

You don't have to suffer to be a poet.  Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.  (John ciardi)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Collected by Patti Tjomsland,
Library Media Specialist
and BER Consultant

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