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- Life is very full of sex, or should be. As much as I admire Tolkien - and I do, he was a giant of fantasy…
- We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.
- Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and…
- If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that…
- I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I…
- I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound…
- My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone…
- But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the…
- A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read…
- A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read…
- You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil?" People…
- Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
- I was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. I grew up in the projects. I never went anywhere. But I have lived a thousand lives and…
- There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination,…
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