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- Nigel gave the lamp a cautious buff and small smoking red letters appeared in the air. "Hi," Nigel read aloud, "Do not put down the…
- So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there…
- Well, it would have to be “The Man Who Was Thursday.” It’s a damn good read that I believe should be read by everyone in…
- If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read…
- When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't…
- My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who…
- Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in…
- I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice…
- One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested…
- A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
- Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.' Alarums and what?', said…
- People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave…
- In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.
- He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction…
- It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he…
- ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NOT EXIST,…
- I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the…
- The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really…
- The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs…
- Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would…
- Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-" "Go for the throat
- So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten…
- When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.
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