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“Fiction is an easy way to talk about issues: I think it feels less preachy. You can have the students discuss characters in the book as opposed to hypothetical situations, or as opposed to opening up about themselves, unless they really want to.”

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Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get…

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Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters.

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Don't give up on me now. I'm sorry. I guess that's an odd thing to say. Because isn't that what I'm doing? Giving up?

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If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be an angry…

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“Pero no puedes escaparte de ti misma. No puedes decidir no verte más. No puedes decidir apagar el ruido de tu cabeza.”

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“When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life.”

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I miss video games where the jump-kick was the trickiest combo to master.

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“One day, at least it seemed that fast, she just stopped wanting to be a part of anything.”

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And as I stood there in the hallway―alone―trying to understand what had just happened and why, I realized the truth: I wasn't worth an…

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I was too weak to walk. At least, I thought I was too weak. But in truth, I was too weak to try.

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Personally, I never understood the power of having books written about your experience - whatever that experience may be - until I wrote one…

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'Fifty Shades' opened the door and made it easier to write about any issue that's controversial. It has helped other authors talk honestly.

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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