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These times made me search for guidance within myself, for a reason to live. This is where my literature comes from.

— Rosario Ferré Centro Journal (2002)

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Literature is prophetic-life often lives up to fiction

He created the house on the lagoon as one would create a poem or a statue, breathing life into its every stone. (chapter 6, p49)

The House on the Lagoon (1995)

Abby used to say adaptability was the secret of survival-one's soul should bend and then it wouldn't break. (chapter 29, p295)

The House on the Lagoon (1995)

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral: That's the difference.

Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out (1993)

Writing is a lot like sewing: You bring pieces together and make a quilt.

Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out (1993)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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