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A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.
Susanna Clarke -
An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.
Susanna Clarke
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Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.
Susanna Clarke -
What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.
Susanna Clarke -
All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.
Susanna Clarke -
Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.
Susanna Clarke -
There must come a time when the bullets will run out.
Susanna Clarke -
There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.
Susanna Clarke