"It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing."

Darkness, Discovery, Writing

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"It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing."

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"Beyond the edge of universe,there's a kind of real darkness...where even the light gone astray."

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"Darkness never lasts forever. Morning always comes with the lights of love to brighten our future."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"Darkness is a place that encourages us to seek light."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

Darkness, Despair, Isolation, Night

"There are different kinds of darkness, Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. "There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful. I pictured each. "There is the darkness of lovers, and the darkness of assassins. It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. It is not wholly bad or good."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

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"Nico remembered something Jason Grace had told him in the palace of Notus: Maybe it's time you come out of the shadows. If only I could, he thought. For the first time in his life, he had begun to fear the dark, because he might melt into it permanently."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"All dark and comfortless."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"See you in the darkness."

Gary Gilmore, American Criminal

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"If there's a place for me in Hell I hope it's next to someone like you."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

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"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."

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"It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country."

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"You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else."

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"It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow."

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"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."

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"You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel."

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