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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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If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting…
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The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away…
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It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most…
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Life though, is full of compensations and I have been well blessed throughout my 'Life Journey' with good friends met and made…
— John McLeod
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We come to believe that we can only learn when we are young, and that only ‘naturals’ can acquire certain skills. We…
— Robert Twigger
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By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but…
— William Osler
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Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers…
— Pythagoras
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Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind,…
— Paul Di Filippo
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