“Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.”

“Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?”

“The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience.”

“A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing.”

“We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.”

“I don't remember ever signing up for weird. It just sort of happened.”

“The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as wed like to be. And that sucks. But when youre confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole ...”

“After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, a...”

“Many people in this room have an Etsy store where they create unique, unreplicable artifacts or useful items to be sold on a small scale, in a common marketplace where their friends meet and barter...”

“Reading, writing, and personal introspection will not protect us from hardship and suffering, but they might introduce us to critical thinking and expose us to what is good in humankind and beautif...”

“Heaven would be a comfortable chair, a library, Diet Coke, and an occasional cheese pizza. Sex once in a while. No talking. ~ Drew Stirling”

“Reading is one of the most common habit among the most successful people.”

“Some experiences are universal. A girl is a girl whether she lives in West Omaha or Sweet Valley. Books are often far more than books.”

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books”