„I asked a teacher what the opposite of a miracle was and she, without thinking, I assume, said it was an act of God.You shouldn’t say something like that to the kind of kid who will grow up to be a writer; we have long memories.“

— Terry Pratchett

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„Shut up, me" Leo said out loud."What?" Piper asked."Nothing," he said. "Long night. I think I'm hallucinating. It's cool.“
— Rick Riordan
„I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.“
— Louisa May Alcott
„We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.“
— Stephen Fry
„Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like… you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.“
— Anne Sexton
„I don't think… then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.“
— Lewis Carroll
„I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans, because I am by instinct a teacher and I would like to teach them something.“
— Woodrow Wilson