“Only the very weak-minded
refuse to be influenced by
literature and poetry.”
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“If you only read the books
that everyone else is reading,
you can only think
what everyone else is thinking.”
Haruki Murakami
“You think your pain and your heartbreak
are unprecedented in the history of the world,
but then you read.
It was books that taught me
that the things that tormented me most
were the very things that connected me
with all the people who were alive,
who had ever been alive.”
James Baldwin
“There is something about words.
In expert hands, manipulated deftly,
they take you prisoner.
Wind themselves around your limbs
like spider silk, and when
you are so enthralled you cannot move,
they pierce your skin, enter your blood,
numb your thoughts.
Inside you they work their magic.”
Diane Setterfield
“I don’t allow myself
to doubt myself
even for a moment.”
Asha Seth 