If thrillers are to be believed, falling in love is as dangerous as leaving your front door unlocked, or walking down a dim, dark street at night.
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Being able to escape the world, or else pacify it at all cost, two of the most fundamental things Brave New World condemns, had become too tempting to ignore.
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When does consideration for the stories and personal lives of others become censorship of our writing?
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I learned, in real life and in stories, that grief is more powerful than outright horror, that guilt is more haunting than ghosts, and that there are worse things than death.
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Characters who are maddening and complicated tend to stay with us long after we’ve finished reading about them. They make better protagonists than those seemingly perfect ones, for whom everything comes easily
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The Baron in the Tree is less about a boy’s hilarious, lifelong “stunt” than it is about the universal struggle of those who know that life has so much more to offer them.
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The parallel analyses of magical realism is one of the most freeing elements — from the perspective of a reader as well as a writer — because it allows for looser writing, narratives and characterization
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Perhaps I took it too literally, but I was under the impression that if something had not happened directly to me, I had no right to write about it.
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I didn’t understand, for a long time, why the feedback I received from peers and family was the same: great setting — wooden characters.
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I envy those who got the opportunity to discover the series as children ... it would have given me a taste for truly singular, out-of-the-box narration and storytelling—perhaps it would even have influenced the way I write today.
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