"The story was told, generation by generation, in song and in story, until time misted it into myth and legend. But some believed, as legends brought comfort."

Literature, Story, Legend, Myth, Tradition

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"The story was told, generation by generation, in song and in story, until time misted it into myth and legend. But some believed, as legends brought comfort."

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"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Literature, Pain, Learning, Ignorance, Reading

"The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature."

George Orwell, British Author

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"Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have a strong subconscious wish to find them incredible."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Literature, Fiction, Character, Realism, Subconscious

"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."

John Green, American Author

Literature, Books, Creativity, Life, Art

"I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe."

Elizabeth George, American Author

Literature, Will

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Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Literature, Books, Experience, Life, Depth

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Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Literature, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"The burning point of paper was the moment where I knew that I would have to remember this. Because people would have to remember books, if other people burn them or forget them. We will commit them to memory. We will be come them. We become authors. We become their books."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Literature, Memory, Books, Knowledge, Preservation

"Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Literature, Romance, Fiction, Emotion

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"My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life."

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Self

"Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?"

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"When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you-even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you'd be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)"

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"Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart-had a mate. A rightness. She'd always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did."

Romance

"I can't believe what a state I got myself into over this. Everyone was right. They said it would just happen, and it did. I guess the best things do."

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"Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?"

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"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."

"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."

"The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature."

"Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have a strong subconscious wish to find them incredible."

"I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe."

"In books, that which is most generally interesting is what comes home to the most cherished private experience of the greatest number. It is not the book of him who has travelled the farthest over the surface of the globe, but of him who has lived the deepest and been the most at home."

"Which is my favourite author??You have mistake it must be authors I have a lot of favourite authors, which is my book, opps again a mistake, it must be books..."

"The burning point of paper was the moment where I knew that I would have to remember this. Because people would have to remember books, if other people burn them or forget them. We will commit them to memory. We will be come them. We become authors. We become their books."

"Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all."

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"My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life."

"Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward."

"Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?"

"Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart-had a mate. A rightness. She'd always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did."

"And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking."

"That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea."

"Fate. You could never anticipate it."

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"Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?"