Ksenia Anske Quotes

#1. I'm a phoenix. Burn me, I will keep rising.

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#2. True horror is not in our stories, it's in our lives. Stories help us process it.

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#3. Who says you're alone? There is the sky to hug you, the trees to whisper to you, the ground to hold you, the flowers to nod to you.

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#4. Why writers stumble over words when talking? Because we have so much to say, our mouths can't keep up with our brains.

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#5. I tell you, I've seen things," Panther growled philosophically, "squirrels chasing their tails like dogs, dogs climbing trees like squirrels, but I've never seen a house behave like a flower, demanding to be watered.

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#6. A writer is a genius not when critics say so, but when her or his book pierces your heart and rips off your blindness with its brilliance.

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#7. Hey, you, aspiring writer, stop aspiring and start WRITING already!

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#8. I want to bury my head in books like in pillows and breathe in stories like air.

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#9. Keep writing, because you won't know who you really are until you see it staring back at you from the page.

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#10. Your curse is yourself. You're the biggest obstacle you will ever have to battle.

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#11. That's one huge puppy.

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#12. Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks like a story.

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#13. I know it feels like it, but you're not alone in your pain. Shed it. Write a story. And we'll tell you that our pain is the same.

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#14. Books are merely translations of our emotions into words that allow us to connect on an almost blood transfusion level.

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#15. Maturity is for serious people. Let us be immature and have endless fun.

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#16. I'm weird. On the surface I look quiet and composed, but inside I have a hundred voices raging at full volume.

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#17. Reading makes me thirsty for writing. Writing makes me thirsty for reading. The cycle never ends.

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#18. Writers don't sleep. Writers keep writing in their heads while they're dreaming.

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