"I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality."

Home, Adventure, Answers, Vitality

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"I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality."

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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Sometimes to be at home is like a nightmare by Stephen King."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love."

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"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."

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"I've spent my life supporting myself."

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"Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman."

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