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Unknown 245 books · 3744 quotes Stephen King 75 books · 1807 quotes Terry Pratchett 49 books · 1245 quotes Sherrilyn Kenyon 41 books · 1124 quotes Cassandra Clare 41 books · 1100 quotes Agatha Christie 60 books · 1051 quotes William Shakespeare 39 books · 956 quotes Kristen Ashley 34 books · 956 quotes Rick Riordan 36 books · 941 quotes Neil Gaiman 34 books · 917 quotes Brandon Sanderson 32 books · 853 quotes Dean Koontz 48 books · 852 quotes C.S. Lewis 29 books · 760 quotes Seanan McGuire 30 books · 749 quotes Lisa Kleypas 26 books · 721 quotes Margaret Atwood 27 books · 719 quotes Jennifer L. Armentrout 28 books · 711 quotes Haruki Murakami 26 books · 699 quotes Jodi Picoult 24 books · 699 quotes Jim Butcher 26 books · 686 quotes Nalini Singh 28 books · 644 quotes Ursula K. Le Guin 30 books · 635 quotes Thich Nhat Hanh 23 books · 629 quotes Richelle Mead 23 books · 612 quotes Ilona Andrews 21 books · 609 quotes J.R. Ward 25 books · 608 quotes Nora Roberts 43 books · 603 quotes James Patterson 37 books · 589 quotes Lemony Snicket 23 books · 575 quotes Colleen Hoover 20 books · 574 quotes Nicholas Sparks 20 books · 558 quotes J.D. Robb 30 books · 553 quotes Charles Bukowski 22 books · 551 quotes Charles Dickens 23 books · 548 quotes Friedrich Nietzsche 20 books · 526 quotes Laurell K. Hamilton 26 books · 522 quotes Kresley Cole 20 books · 522 quotes Erin Hunter 36 books · 519 quotes Janet Evanovich 23 books · 518 quotes Alice Hoffman 22 books · 502 quotes Paulo Coelho 18 books · 494 quotes Rachel Caine 18 books · 489 quotes Sarah J. Maas 19 books · 489 quotes Oscar Wilde 22 books · 488 quotes Virginia Woolf 20 books · 485 quotes Anne Rice 23 books · 481 quotes Julia Quinn 20 books · 480 quotes Abbi Glines 23 books · 479 quotes Gena Showalter 27 books · 476 quotes T.J. Klune 17 books · 470 quotes T. Kingfisher 17 books · 468 quotes Orson Scott Card 29 books · 465 quotes Tahereh Mafi 17 books · 455 quotes Alexander McCall Smith 19 books · 451 quotes Mark Twain 20 books · 450 quotes Robert Jordan 16 books · 441 quotes Chuck Palahniuk 17 books · 433 quotes Julie Kagawa 19 books · 432 quotes Holly Black 18 books · 431 quotes John Steinbeck 18 books · 423 quotes Jeanette Winterson 16 books · 421 quotes Georgette Heyer 23 books · 419 quotes Anonymous 13 books · 417 quotes Meg Cabot 35 books · 417 quotes Maggie Stiefvater 16 books · 416 quotes Karen Marie Moning 18 books · 416 quotes Kiersten White 15 books · 416 quotes L.M. Montgomery 18 books · 415 quotes Mary Oliver 15 books · 412 quotes Lois McMaster Bujold 19 books · 411 quotes Arthur Conan Doyle 17 books · 407 quotes Harlan Coben 16 books · 407 quotes J.K. Rowling 16 books · 403 quotes Isaac Asimov 23 books · 398 quotes Sarah Dessen 14 books · 395 quotes Patricia Briggs 19 books · 392 quotes David Levithan 14 books · 386 quotes Robin Hobb 15 books · 381 quotes Neal Shusterman 16 books · 379 quotes George R.R. Martin 14 books · 378 quotes Sophie Kinsella 16 books · 377 quotes Kim Harrison 14 books · 377 quotes Kurt Vonnegut 14 books · 376 quotes Ernest Hemingway 18 books · 374 quotes Leo Tolstoy 18 books · 374 quotes Louise Penny 14 books · 371 quotes Charlaine Harris 16 books · 367 quotes G.K. Chesterton 14 books · 364 quotes Aldous Huxley 15 books · 363 quotes Rachel Vincent 19 books · 362 quotes Ally Carter 14 books · 358 quotes Bill Bryson 13 books · 358 quotes Philip K. Dick 18 books · 357 quotes Leigh Bardugo 13 books · 356 quotes Neal Stephenson 14 books · 355 quotes Cecelia Ahern 14 books · 353 quotes John le Carré 17 books · 352 quotes Salman Rushdie 14 books · 349 quotes Steven Erikson 13 books · 349 quotes Kelley Armstrong 22 books · 349 quotes P.G. Wodehouse 19 books · 345 quotes Jeaniene Frost 12 books · 345 quotes Cormac McCarthy 14 books · 344 quotes Jasper Fforde 14 books · 343 quotes Christine Feehan 21 books · 342 quotes Amy Harmon 12 books · 337 quotes Catherynne M. Valente 12 books · 334 quotes Claudia Gray 14 books · 334 quotes Alain de Botton 12 books · 333 quotes J.R.R. Tolkien 17 books · 332 quotes Toni Morrison 13 books · 331 quotes Barbara Kingsolver 12 books · 331 quotes Isabel Allende 19 books · 327 quotes Anne Lamott 12 books · 327 quotes Ray Bradbury 17 books · 324 quotes Vladimir Nabokov 15 books · 322 quotes Douglas Adams 10 books · 320 quotes James Baldwin 14 books · 319 quotes Derek Landy 14 books · 319 quotes Kristin Hannah 14 books · 318 quotes Diana Gabaldon 12 books · 318 quotes Tillie Cole 13 books · 315 quotes Joe Abercrombie 11 books · 314 quotes Mark Lawrence 12 books · 314 quotes Paul Auster 17 books · 312 quotes Marie Lu 13 books · 312 quotes Bernard Cornwell 16 books · 309 quotes Osho 15 books · 305 quotes James S.A. Corey 12 books · 300 quotes Robert A. Heinlein 18 books · 299 quotes Samantha Young 18 books · 299 quotes Kiera Cass 13 books · 299 quotes Albert Camus 12 books · 294 quotes Graham Greene 13 books · 292 quotes Lauren Oliver 12 books · 291 quotes Franz Kafka 15 books · 289 quotes Timothy J. Keller 10 books · 286 quotes David Foster Wallace 10 books · 285 quotes Jennifer Lynn Barnes 15 books · 285 quotes Rebecca Solnit 10 books · 285 quotes Philip Roth 16 books · 283 quotes Tom Robbins 10 books · 283 quotes Gail Carriger 11 books · 283 quotes Alexandra Bracken 12 books · 283 quotes Fyodor Dostoevsky 11 books · 281 quotes Chloe Neill 12 books · 280 quotes William Faulkner 15 books · 279 quotes Ellen Hopkins 14 books · 279 quotes Mia Sheridan 10 books · 278 quotes John Flanagan 15 books · 277 quotes Christopher Moore 11 books · 277 quotes Tamora Pierce 25 books · 277 quotes Gregory Maguire 13 books · 275 quotes R.A. Salvatore 14 books · 275 quotes Milan Kundera 13 books · 272 quotes P.C. Cast 16 books · 272 quotes Hermann Hesse 12 books · 271 quotes Susan Elizabeth Phillips 12 books · 271 quotes Julian Barnes 12 books · 269 quotes Marissa Meyer 10 books · 269 quotes Arthur C. Clarke 14 books · 268 quotes Alan Bradley 10 books · 268 quotes Michael Connelly 16 books · 268 quotes Dorothy L. Sayers 11 books · 267 quotes Maureen Johnson 10 books · 266 quotes Plato 14 books · 265 quotes Stephenie Meyer 11 books · 265 quotes John Green 9 books · 264 quotes F. Scott Fitzgerald 12 books · 263 quotes Shannon Hale 13 books · 261 quotes Ian McEwan 11 books · 260 quotes David McCullough 11 books · 259 quotes Libba Bray 9 books · 259 quotes Christina Lauren 10 books · 259 quotes John Piper 14 books · 259 quotes N.K. Jemisin 12 books · 257 quotes George Eliot 9 books · 256 quotes Chris Colfer 10 books · 256 quotes Douglas Coupland 12 books · 255 quotes Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9 books · 255 quotes John Grisham 19 books · 254 quotes Don DeLillo 10 books · 253 quotes Mitch Albom 9 books · 252 quotes Lee Child 13 books · 252 quotes Michael Lewis 9 books · 252 quotes Brigid Kemmerer 10 books · 251 quotes Iain M. Banks 13 books · 249 quotes Pat Conroy 9 books · 246 quotes David Mitchell 9 books · 246 quotes bell hooks 11 books · 246 quotes Elena Ferrante 8 books · 246 quotes Jorge Luis Borges 14 books · 245 quotes Dalai Lama XIV 9 books · 244 quotes Augusten Burroughs 9 books · 244 quotes Colson Whitehead 9 books · 243 quotes Scott Westerfeld 14 books · 243 quotes Clive Barker 11 books · 243 quotes Matt Haig 10 books · 243 quotes George Orwell 10 books · 242 quotes Terry Goodkind 12 books · 241 quotes Eoin Colfer 13 books · 241 quotes Brent Weeks 9 books · 239 quotes Joanne Harris 13 books · 239 quotes Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 9 books · 239 quotes Brittainy C. Cherry 9 books · 239 quotes Jack Kerouac 10 books · 238 quotes Thomas Hardy 11 books · 238 quotes L.J. Smith 18 books · 238 quotes Samuel Beckett 12 books · 237 quotes Victoria Aveyard 9 books · 237 quotes Anton Chekhov 13 books · 236 quotes Brandon Mull 11 books · 236 quotes Ryan Holiday 8 books · 236 quotes Philippa Gregory 12 books · 233 quotes Kate Atkinson 10 books · 233 quotes Patrick Ness 9 books · 232 quotes Banana Yoshimoto 10 books · 232 quotes Darynda Jones 8 books · 232 quotes Maya Angelou 9 books · 231 quotes Kate DiCamillo 9 books · 231 quotes Kevin Hearne 8 books · 231 quotes Jenny Han 10 books · 231 quotes Rainbow Rowell 9 books · 229 quotes Henry James 10 books · 228 quotes Jo Nesbø 11 books · 228 quotes Deb Caletti 9 books · 228 quotes Kim Stanley Robinson 9 books · 228 quotes David Sedaris 8 books · 228 quotes W. Somerset Maugham 11 books · 227 quotes Anne Carson 11 books · 227 quotes Irvin D. Yalom 11 books · 227 quotes Marcel Proust 9 books · 225 quotes Joseph Conrad 10 books · 225 quotes Nick Hornby 9 books · 225 quotes T.S. Eliot 11 books · 224 quotes Tana French 8 books · 224 quotes Jennifer Donnelly 11 books · 224 quotes Sylvia Plath 9 books · 222 quotes Jojo Moyes 10 books · 222 quotes Italo Calvino 11 books · 221 quotes

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