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“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“What matters is that you consistently work your process and do what you set out to do, each and every day.”
― Jeff Haden, The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win

“Ghosts everywhere. Even the living were only ghosts in the making. You learned to ration your commitment to them. This moment in this tent already had the quality of remembered experience. Or perhaps he was simply getting old. But then, after all, in trench time he was old. A generation lasted six months, less than that on the Somme, barely twelve weeks.”
― Pat Barker, The Ghost Road

“Life makes us so fragile and anesthetizes us too.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives