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- Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.
- To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that you…
- The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a…
- The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes…
- The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands…
- There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
- There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle