“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
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“When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.”
― Inkheart
― Inkheart
“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.”
― Nightmares and Dreamscapes
― Nightmares and Dreamscapes
“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
― Inkheart
― Inkheart
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