"If I had to give a young writer some advice I would say to write about something that has happened to him; it’s always easy to tell whether a writer is writing about something that has happened to him or something he has read or been told. Pablo Neruda has a line in a poem that says 'God help me from inventing when I sing.' It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there’s not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination." Gabriel García Márquez
"I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books." Gary Paulsen
"You use a glass mirror to see your face. You use works of art to see your soul." George Bernard Shaw
"Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it." Markus Zusak
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