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“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone”
― John Updike

“What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.”
― John Updike

“If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.”
― Dan Poynter

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature

“Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.”
― Virginia Woolf

“The real world is where the monsters are.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."

[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”
― John Green

“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“Whatever’s there to feel, feel it – the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache of your own mortality. Get with someone you can trust with tears, with anger, and wonderment and utter silence. Get that part done – the sooner the better. The only way around these things is through them.”
― Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade