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“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

“Cherish your wilderness.”
― Maxine Kumin

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer