“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” – Anna Quindlen

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality. - Francoise Sagan

“Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It’s the crack cocaine of the literary world.” – Jasper Fforde

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read. - Francoise Sagan

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary. - Francoise Sagan

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“I live and breathe tales, and thus I am a story myself, or rather a narrative like a flowing and living river. The tales from my childhood opened my eyes to a realm of imagination.” – Da Chen

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. - Francoise Sagan

“A short story is a different thing all together – a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.” – Stephen King

“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

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