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“My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.”

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Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, born on October 2, 1953, is a renowned novelist. Her works are known for their unique narrative style and profound portrayal of female characters. more

“The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built a temple in my head. . . . Its hallways were as lofty as a cathedral, and the arch of each window as supple as a bow. Its corridors were the passages of my own brain.”

Mind Dream My Own Rooms Brain Grew Exercise Despair Built Window Proportion Temples Melancholy Passages Bows Palaces Lofty Cathedrals Arches Corridors Hallways Supple

Author:Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

“An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.”

Stills Two Artist Opposing Viewpoints

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.”

Way Want Writing Stories Order Dies Mankind Urges Stalling

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.”

Ifs Writing Book Please Finals Stranger Annoying Examination Bothered Staggering

Author:Margaret Drabble

“Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon”

People Want Mean Character Moving Picks Lakes Fictional Character

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.”

Giving Firsts Lost Born Vision Failing Birth Remains

Book:The Magic Kingdom of Landover Volume 1: Magic Kingdom For Sale SOLD! - The Black Unicorn - Wizard at Large

Source: The Magic Kingdom of Landover Volume 1: Magic Kingdom For Sale SOLD! - The Black Unicorn - Wizard at Large

“If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.”

People Ifs Way Believe Games I Believe Integrity Minimum Right Way Believe You Can

Book:Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

Source: Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

“Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.”

Said I Can Dream Reality Color Paint Bleak Tehran

Book:Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“Second to the right, and straight on till morning.' That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds, carrying maps and consulting them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions. Peter, you see, just said anything that came into his head.”

Way Said Morning Bird Corners Maps Instruction Peter Consulting Windy Wendy Neverland

Book:Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)

Source: Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)

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