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“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.”
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
“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.”
― How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
― 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 . . .”
― How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
― How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
“Sister in battle,” murmured Diana, “I am shield and blade to you.”
“And friend.”
“And always your friend.”
― Wonder Woman: Warbringer
“And friend.”
“And always your friend.”
― Wonder Woman: Warbringer
“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Clockwork Angel
― Clockwork Angel
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