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"I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out."
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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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"'Mean to' don't pick no cotton."
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"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."
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"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"
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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
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"Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."
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"Most of the people who have verbally asserted that 'there is no master of pronounciation' have intentionally made a claim and unintentionally made their claim believable. (It is 'pro-nun-ciation' not 'pro-noun-ciation'.)"
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"The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words."
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"English is not merely a language anymore, it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world."
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"In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be a lie. It is the most basic building brick of everything."
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"My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago."
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"I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too."
Change
"On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up."
People
"Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own."
Connection
"I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out."
Language
"What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly."
Want
"For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time."
Time
"I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books."
Books
"When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment."
Imagination
"Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination."
Imagination
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