"A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study."

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"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."

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"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."

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"The literary man re-reads, other men simply read."

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"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."

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"One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else."

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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."

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"A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out."

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"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."

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"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life."

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"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."

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"It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much."

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"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth."

"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."

"In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself."

"It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."

"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."

"The literary man re-reads, other men simply read."

"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."

"One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters."

"Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over."

"I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else."

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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."

"A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out."

"What is art but a way of seeing?"

"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."

"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life."

"A man is only as good as what he loves."

"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned."

"In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries."

"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."

"It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much."