“It is neither poor handling nor the weather that turns the pages of a book a fine sepia. It is the reader's imagination.”

“Ms Rainn, when was the last time you visited a library for the books and not the free Internet it offers?”

“She lost touch with reality and was dragged into her imagination.”

“When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories.”

“The imagination is a wild and dangerous forest that is impossible to know the full might of.”

“He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones.”

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in that chair until words are written, or you're going to give up and walk away. The ...”

“When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.”

“Im likely to stay here, pen in hand, until dusk comes and my writing melts into the twilight.”

“The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.”

“But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.”

“The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly.”

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

“Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.”

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”