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Markus Zusak
“You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.”
Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

Markus Zusak
“My arms are killing me.
I didn't know words could be so heavy.”
Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

Anaïs Nin
“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
Anais Nin

Jon Ronson
“As I glanced at the phraseology of the research report, dull and unfathomable to outsiders like me, I thought that if you have the ambition to become a villain, the first thing you should do is learn to be impenetrable. Don’t act like Blofeld—monocled and ostentatious. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.”
Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

Roald Dahl
“The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.”
Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood

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