Every book was a door, every page a new place to hide.

~ Drew Magary

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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.

~ Henry David Thoreau

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A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Writing a story is like going on a date—you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.

~ Pawan Mishra

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The good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, etc. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.

~ Pawan Mishra

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A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.

~ Pawan Mishra

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If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.

~ Pawan Mishra

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As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

~ Pawan Mishra

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A book is just as magical to write as it is to read, it takes you on a journey that changes you in the end.

~ Jen Golembiewski

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If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

~ Pawan Mishra

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A book can be a great friend, an advisor, a means to an end. A book reveals so much more than a movie would ever do. For example, when I watched the movie “The Hours” I was fascinated by the story. Just a year later I decided to read the book. And what was my surprise that I was even more dazzled by its writings than I was by the images… The images in my head were more vivid than the film could ever transport me to that feminine universe that the author was trying (and so successfully granted me) to conceive…

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

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If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Did I really read every single book in the school? My mother maintains I did. Maybe I just told the teachers I had and they all believed me. Maybe this is where the lying about books really began. Where were the checks and balances? I blame the authorities.

~ Andy Miller

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Books are a portable kind of time travel. We go back as well as forward when we read them. When we come back into the now, after being immersed in worlds previously unknown to us, we find ourselves, transformed. Touched by their magic, nothing we ever perceived beforehand remains quite the same.

~ Suzy Davies

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When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don’t hand me a book?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it, the talented author who crafted each word, the fascinating individuals we meet inside the pages- and the readers we discuss and share the book with when we finish.

~ Donalyn Miller

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I am going to build a fortress of books.Will you come inside and live with me?

~ Kamand Kojouri

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I just want to read and ignore all my adult problems.

~ Unknown

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If rewriting equals rereading, we must logically conclude that writing is reading. If this is indeed the case, how could we possibly write under a ban on reading? The only way left is mouth-to-mouth – poets and storytellers recite their pieces and before we can commit them to memory, everything vanishes into thin air.

~ Kyoko Yoshida

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When someone recommends a book to you, you know two things; that it is a good book and you have a good friend.

~ Min Kim

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I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world.

~ Haruki Murakami

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Books are the best companions. They talk to you when you want them and they stop when you want them…They ask no questions, and want no favours.

~ S. Satyamurti

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Books give us new lives, loves, and the feeling we aren't alone.

~ Marisha Pessl

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We're too practical, I guess. You've got to be something of a dreamer to enjoy books

~ Katarina Bivald

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That was his favorite thing about books—they took you off to other people’s lives an’ places, but you could still set in your own chair by th’oil heater, warm as a mouse in a churn.

~ Jan Karon

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...the space which [books] occupied was itself an expectation.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

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I am the girl who spends hours huddled in a corner of a library, trying to find what you love the most about Marlowe, just so I can write you a poem worthy of Shakespeare. I've made books my lovers, hours my enemies and you the only story.

~ Nikita Gill

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The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop.

~ C.s. Lewis

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Fiction books give the reader a chance to step away from their own reality and into the shoes of the characters, and they show you a world that isn't the one you already know. And sometimes the story's not so different from your own, and it lets you get closer to your own feelings.

~ Shin Towada

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Reading is important. It’s not primarily escapism (though it can be, and there’s nothing wrong with some of that in good measure) and it’s not primarily a way of passing the time. Reading is important to the good life because it stokes the furnaces of our intellect, allows us to expand our understanding of the universe, both inner and outer, for practical gain and simple pleasure. It can induce awe, inspire respect, excite, piss off, and intrigue. These are things that make life worth living.

~ Robert Wringham

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The synopsis looked good, the cover looked nice, you opened the book and began a new life. You found a new home, you met some new friends, you kept on reading, hoping it ould never end. You danced through the pages, you sang out the words you felt all their joy, and all their pain and hurt. The pages cut your fingers, and the words cut your heart, like the author had a knife, and was tearing your soul apart. You laughed with the characters, and with them, you cried, you fell in love with them, too but with them, you died, and when the book reached its end, and your broken heart couldn't heal, you suddenly realized that its not real.

~ Anonymous

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When you read,' the man whispered, 'you discover who you really are. You find traces of yourself, little pieces you didn't know were there.

~ Malcolm Mcneill

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