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pre-Socratic philosopher Meno. It read, “How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?”
“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”
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“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
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“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible”
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“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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Amy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Amy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Biography, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, Literary Critism, Literary criticism, education, technology, economics, Epistolary, and Academic
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