On this page are quotes that inspire me as a writer.
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“Even trees do not die without a groan,” Henry David Thoreau
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The novel has several ways of hooking a reader: offering escape into thrills and/or the exotic, offering puzzles to be solved, offering daydream material; offering a reflection of your own life; offering revelation of others kinds of life; offering an alternative to recognizable life in the shape of fantasy. It can set out to make you laugh, make you cry, make you gasp with amazement. Or, at its best, it can take you into a completely real-seeming world in which you can experience all those sensations (134).
Athill, Diana. Somewhere Towards the End. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 2008. Print.
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“If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.” Tennessee Williams
