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“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”-Victor Hugo

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“I shut my eyes in order to see.”-Paul Gauguin

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“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”-Rita Mae Brown

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“Reading is important-read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.”-Gwendolyn Brooks

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“Words are all we have.”-Samuel Beckett

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“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it…Success is shy-it won’t come out while you’re watching.”-Tennessee Williams

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“Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.”-James Baldwin

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“Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.”-Italo Calvino

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“A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.”-William Butler Yeats

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“I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face.”-Michel Foucault

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