Writer Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

14 Writer quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

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Valente’s 14 brief musings make a neat entry point for anyone curious about how a modern fantasy author frames the act of writing. The selection is small but packed with her characteristic sparkle, perfect for a quick, inspiring read.

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She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

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A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.

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It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

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A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and…

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She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her…

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Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I was…

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“One: A Library Is the Size of the Universe and the Universe Is the Size of a Library. Two: Everyone Is Looking…

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How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring…

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“You poor girl, what sort of aged, unfriendly Libraries have you met in short life? A silent Library is a sad Library…

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“What is it, Master Calligrapher, that little girls do in the way that spiders weave?" sleeve asked primly. The Calligrapher coughed, for…

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“The keeping of lists was for November an exercise kin to repeating of a rosary. She considered it neither obsessive nor compulsive,…

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“When a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening,…

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“My mother lived alone in the ruins of the great Library, which was called Compleat, and a very passionate and dashing Library…

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“A silent Library is a sad Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines…

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“Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.”

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“The cicada lies in the earth for seventeen years. It is warm and dark there, it is soft and wet. Its little legs curl…

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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

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“There is a place, September, oh, very far from Pandemonium. A place where it is always autumn, where there is always cider and pumpkin…

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“I was happy, the sun was high. I had enough.”

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