When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."
Erma Bombeck
The world is a book, and those who don’t travel only read one page.
Saint Augustine
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
Josh Billings
The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe.
Lawrence Kutner
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
Plato
Miracles happen every day of our lives. And the reason we don't realize it is that most of the time we are in too much of a rush to notice the angels going about their business.
Erica James
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.
Jodi Picoult
Start writing no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
Louis L'Amour
There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.
Laura Bush
The truth of the matter is that anyone at all out of the ordinary has always a rather lonely life.
Flora Thompson
A woman’s destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.
Caroline Mytinger
I take a book almost everywhere. Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.
Stephen King
A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.
C.S. Lewis
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
The goal isn’t to live forever; the goal is to create something that will.
Chuck Palahniuk
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
Robertson Davies
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norris
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!
Jane Austen
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen
I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
Mary Flannery O’Connor