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Top 25 Bruce Coville Quotes (2024 Update)

Bruce Coville Quote: “Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.”

1. “Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.”

— Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville Quote: “If you don’t jump, the wings never come.”

2. “If you don’t jump, the wings never come.”

— Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville Quote: “I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.”

3. “I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.”

— Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville Quote: “You need them both, Thatcher. Talent and discipline. One without the other is useless.”

4. “You need them both, Thatcher. Talent and discipline. One without the other is useless.”

— Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville Quote: “That sense of loss grew within the humans who had been left behind, left to live without unicorns. Even the ones who had never seen a unicorn, never heard of a unicorn, felt the passing of something sweet and wonderful. It was as if the air had surrendered a bit of its spice, the water a bit of its sparkle, the night a bit of its mystery.”

5. “That sense of loss grew within the humans who had been left behind, left to live without unicorns. Even the ones who had never seen a unicorn, never heard of a unicorn, felt the passing of something sweet and wonderful. It was as if the air had surrendered a bit of its spice, the water a bit of its sparkle, the night a bit of its mystery.”

— Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville Quote: “Each wound has its own time for healing... The wounds of the heart are much deeper than those of the flesh.”

6. “Each wound has its own time for healing... The wounds of the heart are much deeper than those of the flesh.”

— Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville Quote: “Change will come, whether we wish it to or not. To fight it is like fighting the sunrise. Better to say, ‘Ah, welcome old friend. Here you are again.”

7. “Change will come, whether we wish it to or not. To fight it is like fighting the sunrise. Better to say, ‘Ah, welcome old friend. Here you are again.”

— Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville Quote: “The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.”

8. “The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.”

— Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville Quote: “I like fixing things,” he said as he worked. “The world is always breaking, here and there, this way and that. Fix a bit of it, and I feel like I’m helping.”

9. “I like fixing things,” he said as he worked. “The world is always breaking, here and there, this way and that. Fix a bit of it, and I feel like I’m helping.”

— Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville Quote: “Travel safe, travel well. May those who have gone before be always with you.”

10. “Travel safe, travel well. May those who have gone before be always with you.”

— Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville Quote: “Hearts grow hard and weary. Pain spreads, and joy diminishes. Those who hated you hate you still, but those who loved you, or would have loved you, or wanted to love you but never had the chance, are being scraped hollow by a loss they don’t understand. Come home. Please come home. We are withering without you.”

11. “Hearts grow hard and weary. Pain spreads, and joy diminishes. Those who hated you hate you still, but those who loved you, or would have loved you, or wanted to love you but never had the chance, are being scraped hollow by a loss they don’t understand. Come home. Please come home. We are withering without you.”

— Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville Quote: “Time becomes very weird. Sometimes it seems as if the hours are rushing by in a blur, the moment of performance hurtling toward me. Other times the clock seems to poke along like a sloth with chronic fatigue syndrome.”

12. “Time becomes very weird. Sometimes it seems as if the hours are rushing by in a blur, the moment of performance hurtling toward me. Other times the clock seems to poke along like a sloth with chronic fatigue syndrome.”

— Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville Quote: “The first draft of a story is the writer’s clay.”

13. “The first draft of a story is the writer’s clay.”

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Bruce Coville Quote: “Still, the painful death of that unicorn had been satisfying to watch.”

14. “Still, the painful death of that unicorn had been satisfying to watch.”

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Bruce Coville Quote: “But, really, why does anyone create? You feel a... a restlessness inside, a need to make something new, something no one has ever seen before. You want to add to the beauty and the richness of the world with a gift, an offering that is uniquely yours. It’s an act of selfishness and generosity, all rolled into one.”

15. “But, really, why does anyone create? You feel a... a restlessness inside, a need to make something new, something no one has ever seen before. You want to add to the beauty and the richness of the world with a gift, an offering that is uniquely yours. It’s an act of selfishness and generosity, all rolled into one.”

— Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville Quote: “Hey, Geekoid!” yelled Duncan Dougal, “Why do you read so much? Don’t you know how to watch TV?”

16. “Hey, Geekoid!” yelled Duncan Dougal, “Why do you read so much? Don’t you know how to watch TV?”

— Bruce Coville

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Bruce Coville Quote: “Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain that couldn’t be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.”

17. “Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain that couldn’t be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.”

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Bruce Coville Quote: “Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.”

18. “Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.”

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Bruce Coville Quote: “All these guys picking on smart kids and calling them geeks and dweebs are going to grow up and want to know why they don’t do something about the terrible state the world is in. I can tell you why. By the time they grow up, most of the kids who realy could have changed things are wrecked.”

19. “All these guys picking on smart kids and calling them geeks and dweebs are going to grow up and want to know why they don’t do something about the terrible state the world is in. I can tell you why. By the time they grow up, most of the kids who realy could have changed things are wrecked.”

— Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville Quote: “Chains,” said the Tinker, coming up behind her. “They bind us, whether we want them to or not. But a heart without chains would have nothing to hold it, might simply blow away.”

20. “Chains,” said the Tinker, coming up behind her. “They bind us, whether we want them to or not. But a heart without chains would have nothing to hold it, might simply blow away.”

— Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville Quote: “Odds of a worm migration coming this way – about a billion to one. Odds of Elspeth improving her behavior without help – about the same. Sleep well, young friends.”

21. “Odds of a worm migration coming this way – about a billion to one. Odds of Elspeth improving her behavior without help – about the same. Sleep well, young friends.”

— Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville Quote: “How in the world do you tellyour wife that her mother was born a unicon?”

22. “How in the world do you tellyour wife that her mother was born a unicon?”

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Bruce Coville Quote: “But it’s often the case that our most intimate enemies are rooted in our own darkness.”

23. “But it’s often the case that our most intimate enemies are rooted in our own darkness.”

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Bruce Coville Quote: “It is easy enough to reject a story because you do not like what it says, but wiser to examine it first, to see what can be learned from it.”

24. “It is easy enough to reject a story because you do not like what it says, but wiser to examine it first, to see what can be learned from it.”

— Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville Quote: “Now that she had lived in two worlds, would she ever again be completely at home in either of them? Or would part of her always long for the other, no matter where she was?”

25. “Now that she had lived in two worlds, would she ever again be completely at home in either of them? Or would part of her always long for the other, no matter where she was?”

— Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville Quote: “For what kind of world is it that has no unicorns?”

26. “For what kind of world is it that has no unicorns?”

— Bruce Coville

Bruce Coville Quote: “It is a pity that Earth has lost its dragons, for they added immeasurably to the strangeness of our world. This, it seemed to me, was a good thing.”

27. “It is a pity that Earth has lost its dragons, for they added immeasurably to the strangeness of our world. This, it seemed to me, was a good thing.”

— Bruce Coville

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