“Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.”
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“It is my belief that books are living things.... And as living things, they need to be protected.”
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“We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
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“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
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Cristal’s 2025 Year in Books
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