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Stefan Grieve

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Stefan’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (10)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1224)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
fantasy‎ (340)
science-fiction‎ (193)

humour‎ (192)
non-fiction‎ (186)
literary-fiction‎ (161)
horror‎ (136)
graphic-novels‎ (124)
thriller‎ (122)

books-i-read-as-a-child‎ (105)
classics‎ (92)
poetry‎ (89)
short-story‎ (84)
theoligy‎ (55)
audio‎ (50)

historical-fiction‎ (46)
book-club‎ (36)
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Stefan’s Quotes

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

tags: reading, writing

2545 likes

“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

tags: children, fairies, fantasy, loss-of-innocence, poetry, sorrow

1429 likes

“I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.

Its only confusing if you believe it has to make sense.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

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“Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

tags: closing-line, life, lions, perseverance, sea

57 likes

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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