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Love"I'm in love with you," he said quietly."Augustus,"I said."I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling...more

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(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.) You do not immortaliz...more

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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back...more

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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

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But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.

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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back...more

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Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made...more

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I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

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Why do writers use symbolism?” Okay, so let’s say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone about it and you say, “I have a headache!” and other ...more

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The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that...more

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Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.", N...more

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Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

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Great books help you understand and they help you feel understood.

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For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.