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"A novel is a world you can hold in your hands."
"The best books leave you with more questions than answers."
"Writing is a way of discovering what you didn’t know you knew."
"The best stories are those that make you see the familiar in an unfamiliar way."
"Do one thing every day that scares you."
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
"A book is a door. You open it. You step through."
A novel is a long answer to a question you can’t quite formulate.
The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.
The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.
The historian must have some kinship with his subject. The dead will not speak unless they are properly addressed.
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
You can never know anyone as completely as you want.
When you are young, you think you will be happy when you are older. But then you get older and you realize you were happy when you were young.
"War is just a series of moments when you don't die, strung together by fear and luck."