Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
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"Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on yourself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing."

~   Hank Green

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"I am simply a ‘book drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them."

~   L.M. Montgomery (via magiquotes)

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"We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world."

~   Philosopher Judith Butler on the value of reading and the humanities

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"There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic…"

~   Margaret (The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield)

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"As a reader, you’re often inside one or more character heads, so you know what they’re feeling, even if they can’t exactly say it, or they say it so obliquely that the other characters don’t catch it. Readers are frequently reminded of the gulf between what people say and what they mean, and such moments prod us to become more attuned to gesture, tone, and language."

~   Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club

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"First coffee. Then a bowel movement. Then the muse joins me."

~   Gore Vidal, on his writing process.
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"Years ago, I went to renew my driver’s license. A staff member at the counter repeatedly called, ‘Haruki Murakami.’ When I went to the counter, the person asked me, ‘You have the same name as that famous novelist, don’t you?’ I answered ‘yes.’ I am like an endangered Iriomote wildcat. I beg you not to come close and touch me."

~   Haruki Murakami

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30 Indispensable Writing Tips from Famous Authors by Jack Shepherd on Buzzfeed

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"His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs."

~   Laura Hillenbrand
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