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“I think they worried that my grandfather would infect me with some incurable dreaminess from which I’d never recover.”

— Ransom Riggs

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Ransom Riggs Quote: “I think they worried that my grandfather would infect me with some incurable dreaminess from which I’d never recover.”

“I think they worried that my grandfather would infect me with some incurable dreaminess from which I’d never recover.”

— Ransom Riggs

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— William Faulkner

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— William Faulkner

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13. “Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.”

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14. “Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”

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16. “Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything good.”

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17. “Our most treasured family heirloom is our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.”

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19. “If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.”

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20. “The past is never dead. It’s not even past; it’s always part of the present.”

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21. “Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.”

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36. “Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.”

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38. “Only when the clock stops does time come to life.”

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39. “How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”

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40. “A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.”

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41. “It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.”

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42. “Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.”

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43. “Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

— William Faulkner

44. “The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.”

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45. “I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.”

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