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Author Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about…
- An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone…
- For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering…
- I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author…
- Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows…
- There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of…
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- Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was… — Thomas Jefferson
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- We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws established by… — John Dalton
- In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The… — Edward Forbes