'"Cats don't have names,' it said.
'No?' said Coraline.
'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.”'
– Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself)
#InternationalCatDay
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Royal Society of Literature
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The RSL celebrates and nurtures reading and writing of all kinds. We're a charity that believes literature is for everyone. ✨ 200 years young. 🌟
- 'But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.' ― A.A. Milne #BrexitEve
- 'So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.' ― Virginia Woolf #BOTD in 1882
- “It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.” — Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) #LibrariesWeek
- Our thoughts are with our Fellow Salman Rushdie and all his friends and family at this time
- 'All cats can see futures, and see echoes of the past. We can watch the passage of creatures from the infinity of now, from all the worlds like ours, only fractionally different.' – from 'The Sandman', @neilhimself #InternationalCatDay
- 'There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.' ― Beatrix Potter, #BOTD in 1866.
- 'You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.' ― James Baldwin #BOTD in 1924
- 'The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.' ― Harper Lee #BOTD in 1926
- 'My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.' ― Mary Shelley, #BOTD in 1797.
- 'Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?' ― Spike Milligan #BOTD in 1918
- 'All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.' — J.R.R. Tolkien, #BOTD in 1892
- "A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.....It’s a community space. It’s a place of safety, a haven from the world." — Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) #LibrariesWeek
