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“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Reading has given me more satisfaction than anything else.”
― Bill Blass

“When in doubt, wear red.”
― Bill Blass

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
― Angela Carter

“The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.”
― Angela Carter

“I desire therefore I exist.”
― Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

“Hope for the best, expect the worst.”
― Angela Carter, Wise Children

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
― J.G. Ballard

“Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.”
― Virginia Woolf

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”
― Adam Lindsay Gordon

“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
― James Jones, From Here to Eternity

“I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
― Ben Okri, The Famished Road