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"I do not steal imagination. I use it and replace it by making people read."
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"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."
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"Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth."
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"Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must."
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"This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant."
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"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"
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"It is neither poor handling nor the weather that turns the pages of a book a fine sepia. It is the reader's imagination."
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"I do not steal imagination. I use it and replace it by making people read."
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"In our Impulsive nature to write and repulsive nature to read that has led to a decline in literary genius in our times!"
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"Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony.Little did they suspect that La Mancha and Montiel and the knight's frail figure would be, for the future, no less poetic than Sinbad's haunts or Ariosto's vast geographies.For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end."
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"You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women."
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"Harry and I are misadventurous misadventurers that like to partake in misadventure."
Adventure
"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
Experience
"I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known."
Philosophy
"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
Experience
"If you work hard all day and all night, something may come of it. You never know, it just might."
Motivation
"Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to trust everyone."
Trust
"Through her eyes the day was new and anything was possible."
Perspective
"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."
Ambition
"Be warned, reader. Once seen, something cannot be unseen and once read, something cannot be unread. What lies ahead can be the future of spirit but the future of spirit can also be what lies inside your head."
Knowledge
"There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it."
Curiosity
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