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"The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory."
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"Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others."
"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."
"Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon."
"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
"Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart."
"Think innocently. Think intelligently. Think imaginatively. Think inventively."
"First drafts don't have to be perfect. They just have to be written."
"Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience."
"The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process."
"I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults."
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"I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to give her. These pages will be our memory until she drows her last breath in my arms and I take her forever and escape at last to a place where neither heaven nor hell will ever be able to find us."
"He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ..."
"It is a part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means, be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our lives, or the absence of meaning. These are basic and extremely simple aspects of existence, but our limitations prevent us from responding in an unequivocal way and for that reason we generate an emotional response, as a defense mechanism. It's pure biology."
"All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem."
"Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it."
"I guessed she must be, at most, twenty, but there was something about her manner that made me think she could be ageless. She seemed trapped in that state of perpetual youth reserved for mannequins in shop windows."
"Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house."
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