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"Lyrics do that sometimes. They find their home at just the right time. Like a secret message in a bottle, floating on a current for decades, only to wash up at someone’s feet when the words are needed." Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe
I need music to any lyric, poems don't do the same to me.
"I think there is an increasing danger of novels becoming too streamlined, domesticated. When you read Vasily Grossman or the big Russian novels, they are wild and unwieldy, but now there's a way in which literature is being commodified and packaged - is it romance, is it a thriller? Commercial? Literary? What shelf should we put it on?" Arundhati Roy
Not just that, I have the feeling, many writers only write what they think their readers will like. It doesn't come from the heart, it's just a repetition of a former success.
"Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever." Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
Like life, no story goes on forever, no matter how much we wish it. That's why a lot of sequels are so bad, some already in the first book, others in the tenth, but they do get bad at some point.
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