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"she writes like she’s starving and reads like she’s feasting." --r.d. larson
"she writes like she’s starving and reads like she’s feasting." --r.d. larson
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Aprilynne Pike, Illusions
"Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Most importantly, if you can at all avoid it, don’t be normal. Strive, burn and do everything you can to avoid being the industry standard. Even the highest industry standard. Be greater than anything anyone else has ever dreamed of you. Don’t settle for pats on the back, salary increases, a nod-and-a-smile. Instead, rage against the tepidness of the mundane with every fiber of whatever makes you, you. Change this place."
—John Green, Looking for Alaska
"I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful."
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
—David Levithan
"Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”—that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same."
Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking
"Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?"
Angelus Silesius
"How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?"
―Mary Doria Russell, Children of God
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