“I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.”
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“Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.”
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“If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.”
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“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
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