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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “A story is a letter the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
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    Edith Schaeffer
    “Writing for enjoyment of expression does not need an audience of more than one.”
    ― Edith Schaeffer
    tags: writing
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    Penelope Lively
    “You write out of experience, and a large part of that experience is the life of the spirit; reading is the liberation into the minds of others.”
    ― Penelope Lively
    tags: reading
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    Thomas Mann
    “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
    ― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades
    tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing
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    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    ― Markus Herz
    tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints
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    Colette
    “Writing only leads to more writing.”
    ― Colette
    tags: writing
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    Ariel Gore
    “I wanted to be a writer, so I became one. How? I wrote things down.”
    ― Ariel Gore
    tags: writing
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    E.M. Forster
    “Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.”
    ― E.M. Forster
    tags: reading
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: writing
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    Alexander Pope
    “A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: knowledge, misattributed-to-einstein, misquote, misquoted
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    Agatha Christie
    “Sometimes I think there are people who only read books in the hope of finding mistakes in them.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Mrs. McGinty's Dead
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    Muriel Rukeyser
    “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
    ― Muriel Rukeyser
    tags: craft, inspirational, muriel-rukeyser, writers
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