"The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms."
~Muriel Rukeyser
"There is no one more rebellious or attractive than a person lost in a book."
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
~ Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
"The minute you start writing to please an audience, the beauty of the world you've created diminishes."
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