Respectable Dr. John Green after tfios knocked down the perks of being a wallflower to #2 on the NY times best seller list
To be fair, I’m not a doctor yet, not even an honorary one.
I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn’t happiness.
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| — | William Saroyan (via transientpublishing) |
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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| — | Cormac McCarthy, The Road (via cyansunday) |
Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than non-fiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read non-fiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.
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| — | “Why fiction is good for you” in The Boston Globe (via aaknopf) |
The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.
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| — | Vasudev (via thearistocatic) |
Still, the longer I was around her, the more I could see the colors of her mind and the recesses of her heart. There was a beast in there. But there was also a girl who was afraid of being a beast, and who wondered if other people had beasts in their hearts too.
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| — | Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily (via kayleyhyde) |
