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Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might be, that alone doesn’t make it a living breathing novel. A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (via yeahwriters)

(Source: noseinabook)