Stacie (MagicOfBooks)

“THE FIRST CHAPTER, MARCUS, is essential. If the readers don’t like it, they won’t read the rest of your book. How do you plan to begin yours?”
― Joël Dicker, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair

“A good book, Marcus, is judged not by it's last words but by the cumulative effect of all the words that have preceded them. About half a second after finishing your book, after reading the very last word, the reader should be overwhelmed by a particular feeling. For a moment he should think only of what he has just read; he should look at the jacket and smile a little sadly because he is already missing all the characters. A good book, Marcus, is a book you are sorry has ended.”
― Joël Dicker

“I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight. It just sounded cool.”
― Alan Goldsher, Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant