“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.” ― Ambrose Bierce

“La literatura es mentir bien la verdad” ― Juan Carlos Onetti

“That’s the great secret of creativity, You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you” - Ray Bradbury

“Silence is safe.” ― Wilkie Collins

“La constancia, aunque sea lejana, vale más que una frecuencia convencional y puramente de aparato.” - Salvador Elizondo

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity” - Edgar Allan Poe

“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.” ― Diane Arbus

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ― Dr. Seuss

“So many books, so little time.” ― Frank Zappa

“Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.” ― Wilkie Collins

“I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play” ― Juan Carlos Onetti

“There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.” ― Diane Arbus

“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in the ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.” ― Diane Setterfield

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...” ― Dr. Seuss

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein

“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

“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.” ― Iris Murdoch

“Books may well be the only true magic.” ― Alice Hoffman

“La vida seria imposible si todo se recordase. El secreto esta en saber elegir lo que debe olvidarse.” ― Roger Martin du Gard

“A great nose may be an index Of a great soul” ― Edmond Rostand

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” ― Zelda Fitzgerald

“Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.” ― Iris Murdoch

“Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” ― Isaac Asimov

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.” ― Moliére

“Nights are long when it's cold and you're waiting for a train.” ― Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter” ― John Keats

“The world's perverse, but it could be worse.” ― Mona Van Duyn

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.” ― Richard P. Feynman

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.” ― Gary Paulsen

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.” ― T.H. White

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.” ― Chuck Klosterman

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.” ― Maurice Sendak

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.” ― Orhan Pamuk

“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

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ― Carl Gustav Jung

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert

“Each person has a literature inside them.” ― Anna Deavere Smith

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.” ― James Herriot

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.” ― Guillermo Del Toro

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” ― Louis L'Amour

“The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.” ― Edward Gorey

“And the rest is rust and stardust.” ― Vladimir Nabokov

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” ― Rumi

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.” ― Joshua Slocum

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” ― John Muir