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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think ↗

— Tom Schulman

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself? ↗

— Milan Kundera

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What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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I want my name to mean me. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together." Brene Brown ↗

— Brené Brown

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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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