Adam Langer Quotes

#1. He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.

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#2. And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were not alone in their hopes, dreams, and fears?

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#3. Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable.

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#4. Had J.D. Salinger known who John Hinckley and mark David Chapman were before they bought his books or took them out of the library? Would it have mattered if he had? Had he returned the royalties he received from those purchases?

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#5. Every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

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#6. Every criminal would be an artist if he had the talent, and every artist would become a criminal if he had the guts.

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#7. Isn't that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?

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#8. I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me.

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#9. He had no idea who bought his books, how they acquired the money to buy them. Perhaps they were saints, perhaps they were criminals ...

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#10. He still wondered what it would be like to be so intriguing that people would actually care if he disappeared.

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#11. The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.

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#12. True love never has to end so why shouldn't our story continue after the last page has been written

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#13. ...there was a certain comfort in surrender.

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#14. Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway.

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#15. Sometimes all a story needed was one or two people to read or listen to it to make it matter.

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