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Stories
Subjects
Authors
Home
History
174
Ancient wisdom
79
Wisdom
43
Learning
23
Individuality
21
Perseverance
20
Nature
18
Courage
13
Teamwork
12
Inspiration
218
Perseverance
39
Individuality
35
Kindness
27
Wisdom
23
Courage
22
Learning
20
Science
115
Modern science
67
Historic science
48
Curiosity
24
Nature
18
Space
13
Invention
11
Wise sayings
71
Wisdom
37
Perseverance
12
Individuality
7
Courage
5
Kindness
5
Curiosity
4
Animals
62
Stories
30
Friendship
57
Art
64
Music
26
Play
20
Individuality
4
Smartyfair
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Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.
Carl Sagan
If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison
You can't be a writer if you're not a reader. It's the great writers who teach us how to write.
Madeleine L'Engle
I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English.
L.M. Montgomery
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances.
William Shakespeare
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
Erasmus
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
Oscar Wilde
I had now the key to all language, and I was eager to learn to use it.
Helen Keller
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C.S. Lewis
We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.
Anaïs Nin
One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.
Horace Mann
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
Terry Pratchett
My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
Hans Christian Andersen
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison
Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
Roald Dahl
The sediments are a sort of epic poem of the earth.
Rachel Carson
Stories have to end. It's what gives them meaning.
Neil Gaiman
Reading was the only Amusement I allow'd myself.
Benjamin Franklin
You can't judge a book by its cover.
English proverb
Books, the children of the brain.
Jonathan Swift
Fiction is Truth's elder sister.
Rudyard Kipling
Books think for me.
Charles Lamb
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel Johnson
We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
Niels Bohr
Whosoever studies works of science must, if he wants to find the truth, transform himself into a critic of everything he reads.
Ibn al-Haytham
A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Chinese proverb
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
Voltaire
Carl Sagan
