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- Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
- I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
- Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.
- My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
- I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to…
- I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated…
- I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the…
- I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles…
- I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own…
- I thought Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a…
- Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical…
- ...people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings…
- ... He had always rather liked emergencies. Other people's at any rate. They put your own problems into perspective. It was like being on a…
- And when the universe has finished exploding all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they…
- All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
- Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose it can mean that you are relaxed, or that…
- People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because…
- I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this…
- At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations…
- ..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars,…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray