“Not only did I manage to accidentally meet the man I’m investigating, I managed to accidentally have sex with him. I’m either the luckiest man alive or the unluckiest. The verdict is still out as to which. —from the journal of Payton Marcus Townsend”
—J. L. Langley, The Englor Affair
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“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”
― Nora Ephron
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“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”
–Ray Bradbury
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“If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em!” ― John Waters
“If you don’t think there is magic in writing, you probably won’t write anything magical.”
– Terry Brooks