The question: Collecting a top 10 list of the best author quotes ever made. Short and sweet. What are your favs?
The answers made my day. I hope they inspire yours as well:
“Today, I understand something I didn’t see before: every blessing ignored becomes a curse.” – The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain
“At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.” – Toni Morrison
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.” – John Steinbeck
“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.” – Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“Life is too important to be taken seriously” – Oscar Wilde
”No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” – Virginia Woolf
“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.” – Chuck Palahniuk
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” – Frederick Douglass
What is your personal favorite author quote? What does it mean to you?
