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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books."

Tom T. Hall, American Musician

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"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."

Walt Disney, American Cartoonist

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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."

Tony Hillerman, American Author

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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them."

Piers Anthony, English Writer

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"I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats."

Jonathan Franzen, American Novelist

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"It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make."

Christian Slater, American Actor

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"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story."

Michael Chabon, American Author

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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"

"I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books."

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."

"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."

"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

"As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them."

"I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats."

"It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make."

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

"Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story."

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"The public can only be really moved by what is genuine."

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"Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men."

"It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public."

"The only cure for grief is action."

"The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions."

"The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected."

"When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent."

"Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature."