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I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
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...The very word 'fiction' implies another world, literally a different place, whereas no one claims that a dedicated sportsman is escaping his… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
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Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
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Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus],… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
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The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
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![“Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating to me as historical documents. Cabet [Icaria's founder and author of the utopian novel, Travels in Icaria], is writing in the 1830s, and his idea of the perfect society reveals a lot…” quote by Christine Jennings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac0/christine-jennings-20527_book_utopian-fiction-is-really-boring-i-had-t_68118.jpg)
![“Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila, Joseph Ratzinger, and Edith Stein-in all their intellectual rigor-as allies in the the struggle against this dismissive atheism.” quote by Robert Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86d/robert-barron-13186_allies_again-i-hear-almost-everyday-from-atheis_35728.jpg)
