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"Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book."

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William Shatner, Canadian Actor

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"I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way."

Jonathan Lethem, American Writer

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Norman MacCaig, Scottish Poet

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Jean Rostand, French Scientist

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"I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!"

R. L. Stine, American Writer

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"I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say."

Dirk Benedict, American Actor

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"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."

"Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book."

"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."

"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."

"If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked."

"I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way."

"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."

"I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books."

"I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!"

"I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say."

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

"Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without."

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