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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
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"Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word."
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"The wonder of words."
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"Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?""With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top."Frank looked incredulous. "I thought the horse couldn't fly!"This time Arion whinnied so angrily, even Hazel could guess he was cursing."Dude," Percy told the horse, "I've gotten suspended for saying less than that..."
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"But language is wine upon his lips."
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"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."
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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."
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"NE'TWORK: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.......RETI'CULATED: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities."
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"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."
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"Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k..." She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. "You know what I mean!"
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"So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot."
Work
"The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire."
Work
"In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures."
People
"But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet."
Poetry
"Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself."
Writing
"I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house."
Pretty
"Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with."
Time
"When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level."
Work
"I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose."
Writing
"Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories."
Science
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