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“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”

~Caroline Gordon

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“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
~Neil Gaiman

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“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
~William Wordsworth

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“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
~ J.R.R. Tolkien

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“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
~Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
~Henry David Thoreau

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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
~ G.K. Chesterton

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“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
~Philip Pullman

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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
~Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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“It’s the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.”
~ Frank Warren