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“The writer must let his fingers run out the story of his characters, who, being only human and full of strange dreams and obsessions, are only too glad to run.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

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“A story is a strong bridge across the night.”
― Alyson Hagy, Scribe

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“Never has it felt more important for me to tell stories of joy and abandon, passion and recklessness. Life is short and difficult, people. We must take our pleasures where we can find them. Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

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“Your work - in even the smallest things - it is a mirror of you.”
― Tony Johnston, Beast Rider: A Novel

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“Books are a sort of cultural DNA, the code for who, as a society, we are, and what we know. All the wonders and failures, all the champions and villains, all the legends and ideas and revelations of a culture last forever in its books.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

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