“Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“Her reputation of reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic; it was supposed to engender difficult questions and to keep the conversation at a low temperature.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“To merge his life in the common tide of other lives was harder for him than any fasting or prayer and it was his constant failure to do this to his own satisfaction which caused in his soul at last a sensation of spiritual dryness together with a...”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric...”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“I have no taste for work any longer, I can do nothing more except wait for night.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“I want to know what passion is . . . I want to feel something strongly.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“That head of yours should be for use as well as ornament.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

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