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Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.John Green
The Fault In Our Stars
Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.Allegra Goodman
Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.Allegra Goodman
Jack Torrance though: Officious little prick.Stephen King
The Shining
I’m out there to clean the plate. Once they’ve read what I’ve written on a subject, I want them to think, ‘That’s it!’ I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again.Richard Ben Cramer
It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.Ernest Hemingway
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.Richard Bach
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
It was love at first sight.J.D. Salinger
[Joseph Heller] Catch 22
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