POST CARDS FROM THE MUSE

Who Said That?

By Nandy Ekle

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1. Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

— Rudyard Kipling

2. We live and breathe words.

–Cassandra Clare

3. Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is       more real than the person standing beside us?

–Cornelia Funke

4. A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

–Italo Calvino

5. What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with            flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance             at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for        thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and             silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human            inventions, binding people together who never knew each other, citizens of distant        epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are            capable of working magic.

–Carl Sagan

6. I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write             one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

–Emily Dickenson

7. Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

–Orson Scott Card

8.          Literature is my Utopia.

–Helen Keller

9. There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes             from an ancient book.

–Arthur Conan Doyle

10.  We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live    forever, unforgettable.

–Neil Gaiman