Post 'The Book Thief'

You know what authors are? They're the biggest manipulators of all time. The things they can do with human emotion. Take your heart and twist it and wring out all these feelings, all this attachment, towards people who don't exist, but who are still people. So much investment in a world which doesn't exist, but one which is still real. Often much more love for this fiction than we ever feel for the real world, the real people. Anyone who's been half awake on the internet and seen all the various fandoms-Harry Potter comes to mind first-would know that. And it isn't just authors. Every type of artist. Painters, musicians, directors, actors. They all make us..care. And isn't that what I want to do? Make people care? Make people listen. Make people cry.



~Sam, whose heart just finished crying over The Book Thief.