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“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
― Helen Keller

“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love

“This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.”
― Carol Shields, Unless

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“You know, when you talked about good days and bad days, do you think right now counts as the good days?”
“It depends. How do you feel right now?”
Rania closed her eyes when she said, “I feel strange. I haven’t felt like this for a long time.”
Zaheed took a deep breath. “How so?”
She shrugged. “Perhaps, it’s because I’m in a whole new place, where I haven’t set my foot before; the air smelt different and I’m talking to a stranger. It made me feel like I’ve just had all my memories erased and replaced with new ones.”
― Diyar Harraz, One Minute to Midnight

“But, when he saw that glint of happiness in his father’s eyes in the middle of his sentence, he decided that he wanted it to stay that way.”
― Diyar Harraz, One Minute to Midnight

“.....the only sound was of the crickets, and the glittering speckled of stars on the night sky as witness of her biggest mistake, the night when it changed her life forever.”
― Diyar Harraz, One Minute to Midnight

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

“Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tidak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah. Menulis adalah bekerja untuk keabadian.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer