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The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
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That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy…
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What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...…
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The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?
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Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
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As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be…
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Neil Gaiman has reached a masterful stage in his writing where he deserves his own adjective, which could be extended to younger…
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The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
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Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from…
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Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views -…
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The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more…
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The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when…
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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's…
— Alison Brie
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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice.…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
— Clifton Fadiman
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Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life,…
— Guy de Maupassant
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Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.
— Alain Ducasse
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If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of…
— Stephen King
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Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement,…
— Gustave Flaubert
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