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"I'm trying to find someone who doesn't want to be found.""That can be as hard as looking for a shadow."
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"Don't be too stereotyped, be ready to explore new opportunities."

"Adults follow paths. Children explore."

"In that case, on behalf of Earthlife, I urge that, with full knowledge of our limitations, we vastly increase our knowledge of the Solar System and then begin to settle other worlds."

"Even if the aliens are short, dour, and sexually obsessed-if they're here, I want to know about them."

"We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages."

"I like curiosity. It's a mind game, not a necessity."

"Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape."

"I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move."

"Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water, the leafy patterns of the shadows across the path. And then myself, walking with the alignment that only comes after miles, the loose diagonal rhythm of arms swinging in synchronization with legs in a body that felt long and stretched out, almost as sinuous as a snake when you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains."
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"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."

"After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction."

"I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren't easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all."

"It's still horrible to wish the worst on anyone. I'm sure she had her reasons. Maybe people hurt her feelings, the same way I was hurt. A single word can feel like a rock being thrown at you."

"I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them."

"Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head."

"I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned."
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