"She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in."

-- Maggie O'Farrell

#Reading Quotes #Reality Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“I was always worried about the dishonesty and meretriciousness that often accompanies ego. So I tried to make the memoir as factual and accurate and as unemotional as I could, and let readers make their own judgments on what happened. And, in fact, that's how I write poetry. I'm trying to present the reader with the experience itself, not with my commentary on it. So I adopted a style that I'd hoped would let me accomplish that.”

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“No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.”
“Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.”
“So much work went into this book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"] - you can probably tell from looking at the art and overall design.”

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“I've had a lot of people come up to me after shows and tell me that "Dollhouse" really helped them with whatever they were going through with their families. I thought that was really amazing, that it could mean one thing for me but another thing for someone else.”
“The important thing is to keep trying”
“The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.”
“My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.”

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