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"I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world."
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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."

"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."

"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."

"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."

"Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in history. It's never the other way around."

"We just had a near-life experience!"

"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."

"It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests."

"I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints."
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"In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives."


"Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost."


"A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore."


"We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making."


"Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level."
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