There’s no place like home.
L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.
Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

I wished she’d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.
Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.
Brothers Grimm, Snow White

We all can dance,” he said, “if we find the music that we love.
Giles Andreae, Giraffes Can’t Dance

The more he gave away, the more delighted he became.
Marcus Pfister, The Rainbow Fish

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked chin and stick out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look
lovely.
Roald Dahl, The Twits

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.
Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Happiness can be found in the darkest of times if only one remembers to turn on the light.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

“What day is it?”
“It’s today,”” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.
The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh A.A. Milne

“How do you spell ‘love’?” – Piglet
“You don’t spell it… you feel it.”
The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh A.A. Milne

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.
Peter Pan J.M. Barrie

Believing takes practice.
A Wrinkle In Time Madeleine L’Engle

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to an end; but that was not to be.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis

Reading never wears me out.
Olivia Ian Falconer

“What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store.
What if Christmas … perhaps … means a little bit more!”
How the Grinch Stole Christmas Dr. Seuss

Unless someone like you cares a whole
awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. The Lorax, Dr. Seuss

It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that. Even in Australia. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Judith Viorst

I am a city child. I live at The Plaza. Eloise, Kay Thompson

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though. J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. Robertson Davies

Quiet people have the loudest minds. Stephen King

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. Logan Pearsall Smith

Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices. Jennifer Salaiz

You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it. William Goldman, The Princess Bride

Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit. Linda F. Radke President of Five Star Publications

Writer’s block’ is just a fancy way of saying ‘I don’t feel like doing any work today. Meagan Spooner

Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets. Chloe Thurlow, The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena

The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words. J.V. Cunningham

I’ve always said “Writer’s Block” is a myth. There is no such thing as writer’s block, only writers trying to force something that isn’t ready yet. Sometimes I don’t write for weeks. And then all of the sudden I’ll get a rush of inspiration and you can’t drag me away from my notebook. But I don’t stress out if I don’t hit some arbitrary word count each day or if I go a few days without writing something. Julie Ann Dawson

A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony. Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

Don’t be ‘a writer.’ Be writing. William Faulkner