Amanda

“But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.”
― Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

“It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .”
― Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

“Yes, everything's been written, but also, the thing you want to write, before you wrote it, was impossible to write. Otherwise it would already exist. Your writing makes it possible.”
― Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel