Quotable Somerset Maugham

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”

– Somerset Maugham

Quotable S. I. Hiyakawa

“It is not true that we only have one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”

– S. I. Hiyakawa

Quotable Scot Bondlow

“As I understand it, the point of good writing is the same as the joy of travel: to go somewhere else.”

– Scot Bondlow

Quotable L. M. Montgomery

“The one all-important canon of literature: ‘Thou shalt not write a dull book.’ “

– Paraphrased from L. M. Montgomery

Quotable Hollywood

“We’re too young to realize that certain things are impossible.  Which is why we’ll do them anyway.”

–William Pitt to William Wilberforce, in Amazing Grace