Quotes & Sayings About Reading By Famous Children's Authors

It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers; and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other men is that they have taken more pains than other men. — Orison Swett Marden

I feel like dough, being kneaded and reshaped again and again. — Suzanne Collins

To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level. — Robert Fulghum

Life was best when standing in the shadow of death. — Alter S. Reiss

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. — Epicurus

I believe over the long term he's going to have the money, and he's got the message, that this is going to be one of the finalists for the presidential campaign. — Ted Cruz

Chaol, she said again. Oh, she was going to vomit. — Sarah J. Maas

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. — Paul Valery

The bed smells like sex and chocolate."
He moaned. "Don't tell me that while I'm stuck in a room with six men. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

I've taken my number & if history is kind ... I'll always be remembered as being a good & caring person who just made a bad mistake. — Timothy Pina

She wanted to order him clapped in irons, as he so deserved. But she was stopped by what she saw in the faces of the watching men: disapproval, instinctive and involuntary, but disapproval, nonetheless. They were not comfortable when power was wielded by a woman, not at a man's expense, a man who had just acquitted himself so spectacularly at Lincoln, winning their reluctant respect in a way she knew she never could. — Sharon Kay Penman

When high school girls like us freak out, people are always able to overpower us before we do something stupid, like hijacking a bus or running around with a knife. Which is why girls arm themselves beforehand so they don't get caught up in something like that. Boys probably aren't so good at protecting themselves. — Natsuo Kirino

The word, his name, crawled across the room in a gravelly hiss. — Tabitha Caplinger

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. — William Penn

Scientific thought does not mean thought about scientific subjects with long names. There are no scientific subjects. The subject of science is the human universe; that is to say, everything that is, or has been, or may be related to man. — William Kingdon Clifford