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You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals
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You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've…
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One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The…
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The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind…
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It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.
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Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to…
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Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the…
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About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody…
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In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else,…
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Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.
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The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and…
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As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold…
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Trance had become a dirty word. Thanks to Ian Van Dahl, Lasgo, Flip 'N' Fill and DJ Sammy, a generation of kids…
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Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.
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And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page…
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I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG'…
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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had…
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
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The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful…
— Roald Dahl
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I love Roald Dahl.
— Tyra Banks
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Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over…
— Paul Di Filippo
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A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded.…
— Lev Grossman
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There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl.…
— Barry Sonnenfeld
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