"If they won't write the kind of books we want to read, we shall have to write them ourselves; but it is very laborious." C.S. Lewis to J.R.R. Tolkien "A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence." Leopold Stokowski "Exist not to be different, but to make a difference" A primary school I drove past this one time "Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable ... A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others." The Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz "Die young, stay pretty" Shaun Diviney "A few months ago, I made a terrible mistake. I realised something, and instead of crushing the thought the moment it came, I let it hang on, and now I know it to be true. And I'm afraid it's stuck in my head forever. What was the thought? These are the best days of our lives." The Count "Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in." Fenoglio, Inkheart "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." Cyril Connolly "All you have to do is to decide what to do with the time given to you." Gandalf the Grey "When a young lady is to be a heroine . . . something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way." Jane Austen "Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Ferris Bueller "Today is going to be a good day in a hundred thousand ways that I will never even notice." Emily Peers "You don't have to be gay to be a supporter – you just have to be human." Daniel Radcliffe "And from now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell “Die Ron, die”, I'm just chucking them in the bin where they belong." Ronald Weasley "Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life." Olive Penderghast "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good" Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs "Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if its good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." Andy Warhol