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You're all wonderful, and I'm proud of you! Keep writing and making art!! I'm taking a small social media sabbatical. Be back in a few weeks. 🥰 #indieauthors #artist #artcommunity #writingcommunity #reader #booksky📚💙

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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 Support indie authors! #IndieAuthors #IndieBookstores #Readers #Writers #Booksky

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An entirely original non-Eurocentric literacy universe, 15 never before seen races and languages, and a vast collection of mythologies, anthologies, and histories-- who's ready for a brand new epic adventure? #AStoryOfDainu #Decalogy #EpicFantasy #Booksky #BookSeries

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I've said it before, but I'll say it again: as influenced as my books originally were by the Tanzanian culture of my youth, there is no escaping how prevalent Chinese idioms and culture are in my writing! Sometimes, the plot twists even surprise me! #TheMantisStalksTheCicada #booksky📚💙

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"As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music...

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“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” - Abraham Lincoln #readers #readingcommunity #NeverAsAloneAsYouFeel #indieauthor #booksky📚💙

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"Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?" - David Baldacci #reading #booksky📚💙

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#AsAnAuthor, I don't write chronologically, the way the readers will see. For example, books 1,2,7,&8 are done; 3,4,5,&9 are anywhere between 20-70%, and 6&10 are lucky they even have word docs opened. #indieaauthor #epicfantasy #decology #bookseries #booksky📚💙

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How to write a story... "First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!" - Ray Bradbury #indieauthor #writingcommunity #stories #books #booksky📚💙

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“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.” – Bertrand Russell What's a book you only read so you could say you did? 1st that comes to my mind is A Tale of Two Cites. #readers #indieauthor #writingcommunity #books #quotes #booksky📚💙

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“The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.” ―Dylan Thomas #poetry #DoNotGoGently #poets #writers #writingcommunity #booksky📚💙

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“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” ― Louis L'Amour #writers #writingcommunity #motivation #booksky📚💙

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“When I write, I give people access to their own emotions.” —Gord Downie #writingcommunity #indieauthor #booksky📚💙

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No throne is claimed without consequence. #LongLivetheQueen #AStoryOfDainu #books #indieauthor #amquerying #epicfantasy #readers #writingcommunity #booksky 📚💙

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"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." - John Waters #readers #readingcommunity #writers #writingcommunity #booksky📚💙

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"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel...It is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become." - Ursula K. LeGuin #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #indieauthor #booksky 📚💙

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If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

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"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx #readers #readingcommunity #indieauthors #writingcommunity #booksky 📚💙

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"The man who doesn’t read has no advantage over the man who can’t." - Mark Twain I never understood those who brag about how little they read. Why you telling on yourself like that? #reading #writingcommunity #booksky📚💙

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"Excusing themselves with the pretense of sorting out their appropriate stations, they passed through the guarded gates and doors. Not a word of rebuke from the Masters; not a ring of drawn steel from the guards. Silently, quickly, and perfectly, the Alam army was inside the palace." #Booksky📚💙

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"A well-read woman is a dangerous creature." — Lisa Kleypas #literature #writingcommunity #readers #booksky📚💙

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"My alma mater was books, a good library…I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity." — Malcolm X #books #quotes #readers #library #writingcommunity #indieauthors #booksky📚💙

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"Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work, while reality runs rampant in complete chaos elsewhere." - Don Roff #StrangerThanFiction #indieauthor #readers #writingcommunity #booksky📚💙

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"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." – C. S. Lewis #literature #dailylife #readers #indieauthors #booksky 📚💙

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"Ai bado is a curious thing. The other Dainutara called it magic, but the Bash simply called it Aliamara's gift. It is a skill, a talent that one could master and perfect if they tried. The first three tribes of Ilimak had been given three separate gifts from The Eldest in the beginning.

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"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." – Frederick Douglass #reading #freedom #indieauthor #books #booksky📚💙

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"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go." - Dr. Seuss #reader #indieauthor #literature #booksky📚💙

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"The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented." - Milan Kundera #characters #books #indieauthors #booksky 📚💙

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"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth." - William Faulkner #protest #literature #quotes #indieauthors #booksky 📚💙

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"No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be: a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons." - Ishmael Reed (from Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down)

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"The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library." - Albert Einstein #indieauthors #books #libraries #writingcommunity #booksky 📚💙

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Only three things matter: family, truth, and peace. But Dokiro may only lay claim to two of them, and the choice will haunt him for generations, just as it did his ancestors before him... ASofFandI x Pride and Prejudice x Studio Ghibli #booksky #indieauthors #writers #readers #epicfantasy 📚💙

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"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." - John Locke #reader #writer #writingcommunity #books #booksky 📚💙

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"Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say." — Barbara Kingsolver #writingcommunity #indieauthors #writers #booksky 📚💙

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“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” — Jack London #indieauthors #writingcommunity #writers #poets #books #artist #booksky 📚💙

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“The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.” — Agatha Christie Or literally, ANY chore, I've noticed. #writingcommunity #indieauthors #booksky 📚💙

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“I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.” — Harper Lee #writingcommunity #indieauthor #booksky 📚💙 #WhyIsEverybodyOnTheInternetSoMean

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"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 had ever been alive." - James Baldwin #booksky #📚💙

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What does your brain look like while editing?

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"Writing a [good] book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand." - George Orwell #writingcommunity #indieauthors #Books #booksky 📚💙

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"Reading fiction is important... Following complex story lines stretches our brains...and gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps." – Ann Patchett #reading #fiction #readers #writingcommunity #booksky📚💙

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"Some books leave us free and some books make us free." – Ralph Waldo Emerson #readers #writingcommunity #quotes #books #indieauthor #booksky 📚💙

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"If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!" - John Waters Or if they ONLY have books by white dudes about WWII. #books #readers #writingcommunity #goodadvice #IHaveDoneThisAndItSavedMeYearsOfWastedTime #booksky 📚💙

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