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“When I hear of the destruction of a [bird] species, I feel just as if the works of some great writer had perished.”
~Theodore Roosevelt

“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
~Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“To talk about a book is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.”
~Haruki Murakami

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
~ Terry Pratchett

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
~Eleanor Roosevelt

“This must be a good book. It simply must. I haven’t any choice. It must be far and away the best thing I have ever attempted — slow but sure, piling detail on detail until a picture and an experience emerge. Until the whole throbbing thing emerges. And I can do it. I feel very strong to do it.”
~John Steinbeck