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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Chang-rae Lee
    “For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.”
    ― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea
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    Adrian Phoenix
    “It wasn't the tequila and oxy. You really are that fucking gorgeous.”
    ― Adrian Phoenix, In the Blood
    tags: annie, dante, humor, in-the-blood
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Pat Conroy
    “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
    ― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
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    Stephen King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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    Walter Tevis
    “I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
    ― Walter Tevis
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    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow
    tags: writing
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
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    Stephen King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: writing
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    Jules Renard
    “Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
    ― Jules Renard
    tags: writing
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    Louis Sachar
    “If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs,
    "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies."
    While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
    Crying to the moo-oo-oon,
    "If only, If only.”
    ― Louis Sachar, Holes
    tags: holes
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    “Critical thinking is thinking about your thinking while you're thinking in order to make your thinking better.”
    ― Richard Paul
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: critical-thinker, critical-thinking, democracy, education, freedom, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-opinion, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-the-press, freedom-of-thought, independence-of-thought, independent-thinking, independent-thought, indocrination, liberation, mental-slavery, slavery
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