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    John Updike
    “Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.”
    ― John Updike
    tags: inspirational-quotes, life, writing
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    Patrick Califia
    “Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the world acknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom. ”
    ― Pat Califia
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
    tags: love-in-the-time-of-cholera
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    Jacquelyn Mitchard
    “I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.”
    ― Jacquelyn Mitchard
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    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Every writer dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
    ― Henry Ward Beecher
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
    tags: genius, imperfection, incompleteness, shudder, silence
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    “Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.”
    ― Margaret Chittenden
    tags: brainstorm, chittenden, crazy, margaret, room, writers
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    Erica Jong
    “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: courage, talent
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    Frank McCourt
    “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    ― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
    tags: intelligence, mind, poverty
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    Mark Lawrence
    “I’d be happier on a horse,” Makin said.
    “I’d be happier on a giant mountain goat,” I said. “One that shat diamonds. Until we find some, we’re walking.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns
    tags: caprice, horse
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    Joseph D'Lacey
    “He couldn't think of his robbed left eye without hate squirting into his veins from some deep poison gland he hadn't known he possessed.”
    ― Joseph D'Lacey, Black Feathers
    tags: awesomeness, dark-fantasy, fantasy
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    Auden Johnson
    “The passageway smelled like decaying bodies and lavender. Her nose found it entertaining. The rocky tunnel ate their footsteps. Camin Barice wanted it to steal their voices. Then, she wouldn’t have to listen to the aggravating filth spilling from her charges holes.”
    ― Auden Johnson, Clipped Wings
    tags: dark-fantasy
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    Auden Johnson
    “The rivers had been drained overnight and what was left were things no person should have to image let alone see. She had been smart enough to stay away. But, other humans— were curious. They saw and the image planted in their heads made them bait for the demons.When they extended their hands and offered them peace of mind, the humans accepted without hesitation.”
    ― Auden Johnson, No Vacancy
    tags: dark-fantasy, horror
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    Paul Auster
    “When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”
    ― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
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    Auden Johnson
    “Look, rodent.” At least she could still talk.. “Either chop off my ears so I’m not subjected to your verbal projectiles or clench your back passage so you’d stop dumping toxic waste.”
    ― Auden Johnson, Visible Through Darkness
    tags: dark-fantasy, witty-banter
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    “It was Alec who brought their lips together.

    Seregil's first reaction was disbelief. But Alec was insistent, clumsy but determined. It lasted an instant, an eternity, that one awkward kiss, and it spoke silent volumes of bewildered honesty.

    The moment that followed was too fragile for words.”
    ― Lynn Flewelling, Stalking Darkness
    tags: love
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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    Auden Johnson
    “Those secrets residing in their hearts and minds held magnificent Energy. Humans were too inept to see it as anything but evil.”
    ― Auden Johnson, The Sciell
    tags: dark-fantasy, fantasy, horror, magic, monsters
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    Joe Hill
    “She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.”
    ― Joe Hill, NOS4A2
    tags: books, smell-of-books
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    Auden Johnson
    “You, baby sister, keep trying to fit your body in a box it was never meant to be in.”
    ― Auden Johnson, The Sciell
    tags: dark-fantasy, fitting-in, inspiration
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    Mark Lawrence
    “Few things worth having can be got easily.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
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    Norton Juster
    “So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Diana Nyad
    “I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don’t give up.”
    ― Diana Nyad
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    Nadine Gordimer
    “I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.”
    ― Nadine Gordimer
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    Auden Johnson
    “I would destroy the entire village if doing so meant keeping you safe.”
    ― Auden Johnson, The Sciell
    tags: dark-fantasy, family, gritty, paranormal, relationship, siblings
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    “I am never alone, the pages of a book keeps me my mind occupied.”
    ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
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    Saul Bellow
    “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading
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    “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
    ― Anne Herbert
    tags: book-lovers, books, money, reading
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    Helene Hanff
    “Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?”
    ― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road
    tags: book-lovers
    110 likes



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