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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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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree,…
— Isaac Newton
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The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names.…
— John Woolman
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What I've found is that country doesn't refer to where you grew up as much as where your heart grows down, where…
— Clay Walker
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Jealousy takes root in the soil of insecurity.
— Beth Moore
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Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that’s a blessing.
— Rumi
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Faith is not by wishful thinking, it is what takes root in the heart and shows in one's actions.
— Sayyid Qutb
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Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.
— John Dewey
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Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after…
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make…
— Daniel Dennett
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and…
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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