To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. 

Oscar Wilde

The unfed mind devours itself. 

Gore Vidal

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. 

Doris Lessing

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. 

George R.R. Martin

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. -Anne Frank