Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.
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Jodi Picoult
Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.
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Leisa Rayven
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
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Stephen King
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
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Robert Frost
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not,...
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William Faulkner
More Quotes By Jean Rhys
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
I had started out in life trusting everyone and now I trusted no one. So I had a few acquaintances and no close friends. It was perhaps in reaction against the inevitable loneliness of my life that I'd find myself doing bold, risky, even outrageous...
Almost any book was better than life, Audrey thought. Or rather, life as she was living it. Of course, life would soon change, open out, become quite different. You couldn't go on if you didn't hope that, could you? But for the time being there...
There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.
Lies are never forgotten, they go on and they grow
