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Vera Nazarian

(1966) Science Fiction Writer United States

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Vera Nazarian is a science fiction writer from the United States, best known for Dreams of the Compass Rose.

Quick Facts About Vera Nazarian

Born: May 25, 1966
Nationality: United States
Profession: Science Fiction Writer
Notable works: Dreams of the Compass Rose

About Vera Nazarian

Vera Nazarian is an Armenian-Russian American writer of fantasy, science fiction and other "wonder fiction" including mythpunk, an artist, and the publisher of Norilana Books. She is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and the author of ten novels, including Dreams of the Compass Rose, a "collage" novel structured as a series of related and interlinked stories similar in arabesque flavor to The One Thousand and One Nights, Lords of Rainbow, a standalone epic fantasy about a world without color, the Cobweb Bride trilogy, and The Atlantis Grail books.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Vera Nazarian

Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only…

Age

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“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the…

Adult

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“Colored lights blink on and off, racing across the green boughs. Their reflections dance across exquisite glass globes and splinter into shards…

Christmas

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It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we…

Action

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Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time -- 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!

Blessing

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When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to…

About yourself

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“It's a fact— everyone is ignorant in some way or another. Ignorance is our deepest secret. And it is one of the…

Adapt

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Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get…

Doe

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“Meditation is a mysterious method of self-restoration. It involves “shutting” out the outside world, and by that means sensing the universal “presence”…

Ball player

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The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because…

Air

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Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited…

Fountain

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I've always been creative verbally, had a flair, my teachers said - wrote great expository essays in elementary school, scribbled little poems,…

Assignments

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One sin seldom mentioned is that of killing time.

Killing

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The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.If…

Children

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When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it…

Aim

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“It started to rain overhead, big sloppy droplets, but only in their immediate vicinity of about five feet. However, this being England,…

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“when ever you read a good book somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light”

Books

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“Don't look for a soul mate. Make one -- out of the complex fabric of the human being already with you. Instructions…

Love

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Every story needs to be worth telling.

Needs

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When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.

Gentle

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The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

Arizona

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“On this material plane, each living being is like a street lantern lamp with a dirty lampshade. The inside flame burns evenly…

Allegory

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It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on,…

Agonizing

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To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

Exception

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My advice for aspiring writers is threefold.First, read as much as possible, both within and outside the genre you arem working in.…

Advice

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Vera Nazarian by topic

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