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  A word after a word after a word is power. - Margaret Atwood

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  May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.' — Carol Emshwiller

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  Keep on. The work of the world is always done by creatures too tired to do it.' ― Carol Emshwiller

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  I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. - Octavia E. Butler

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  I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'. - Tamora Pierce

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  The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced. - Robin McKinley

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  The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time. - Mary Oliver

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  You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing. – Anonymous

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  It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. - Judy Blume

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  We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. - Ursula K. Le Guin

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  A dirty book is rarely dusty. - anonymous

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  Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? - Mary Oliver

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  There have been great societies that didn't use the wheel, but there've been no societies that did not tell stories. - Ursula K. Le Guin

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  We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. - Ursula K. Le Guin

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  The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced. - Robin McKinley

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  We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. - Toni Morrison

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  If you can imagine something, it will be. - N. K. Jemisin

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  Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. - Madeleine L'Engle

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  Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert

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  There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't. - Gail Carson Levine

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  Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. - Meg Cabot

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  Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert

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  Communication is health; communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty. - Virginia Woolf

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  There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. - Toni Morrison

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  Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing. - Gertrude Stein

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  Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. - Audre Lorde

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  A dirty book is rarely dusty. - anonymous

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  To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control. - Martha Nussbaum

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  It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. - Judy Blume

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  Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. - Mary Oliver