Acknowledgments Quote by Brandon Sanderson

“I, or any mortal at any time, may be utterly mistaken as to the situation he is really in.”

— C.S. Lewis

“I have to write, as if I were carrying out a punishment. And the greatest punishment is to know that whatever I write will…

— Fernando Pessoa

“If my words are the only power I have, I intend to use them well.”

— Loretta Lost

“For me, writing is immortality. It is wisdom. It is never-ending.”

— Al Stone

“This writing doesn't affect reality any more than any writing does; that is to say, indirectly, but considerably.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“But here’s an ugly truth about typos and other small editing mistakes: They exist in traditional books, too.”

— Sean Platt

“Words can lie. See beyond them.”

— Victoria Aveyard

“The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Except that love - that mysterious, vast, all-encompassing power - could not possibly be contained in a single word.”

— Mary Balogh

“In this world, to be overly literal is a profound weakness.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess.”

— Luis Marques

“I do very emphatically believe there is an enormous amount of the androgynous in any all-or-nothing prose writer, or even a would-be one.”

— J.D. Salinger