“every story written is
marks upon a page
The same marks,
repeated, only
differently arranged”
Max Barry (1973) Australian writer
Source: Lexicon
“Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop”
Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
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