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“I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: "If I sit down and do this, everything will come out OK.”

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Author:Stephen King
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“The Hope factory was menacing in the distance, for it was one of the few buildings that somehow managed to present itself through the smog. Its hulking form consumed almost all of the horizon, and its many pistons, pillars, chimneys and flumes ate into the heavens. For the parts of the sky it could not reach, those towers sent up endless streams of smoke, and this smoke devoured the natural clouds and left an unnatural haze in the heavens. The factory was a greedy mass of brick, a ravenous form of iron. As much as it gobbled up all the landscape, it threatened that it might eat the onlookers too.”

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Book:Hopebreaker
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“The drought came with the volcano. Street lamps frowned through ash-made dark. Homes turned into hills with chimneys peeking out the summits. We hummed as we trudged through the wreckage, until our hums turned into songs. We didn’t know what else to do. Tears wouldn’t water the grass. Cries wouldn’t call the birds home.”

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Book:Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems
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“ചിലരുടെ അസാന്നിധ്യത്തിലേ അവരുടെ വില നമുക്ക് മനസ്സിലാവൂ. അതുവരെ അവർ പരിഹസിക്കപ്പെടാനും സംശയിക്കപ്പെടാനും അവഗണിക്കപ്പെടാനും മാത്രമുള്ളവരാണ്.”

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Book:അല്‍-അറേബ്യന്‍ നോവല്‍ ഫാക്ടറി | Al-Arabian Novel Factory
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