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- We grow up being told about great figures in our society, and as you get older you have to question the stories you've been told…
- As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years…
- The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it's nice…
- One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.
- listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy --- let me have a go: cursed deamon! you have met your end! the shivering…
- I warn you," the boy went on. "I am a magician of great power. I control many terrifying entities. This being you see before you"…
- Fiftey years isn't too bad. With luck you might see it happen when your a sweet,old granny,dandling big fat babies on your knee. Actully"-he held…
- We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made on the edge…
- The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized, the boy watched them disappear under the hanging thatch of white hair. There, almost coyly, they…
- I like to have my characters talking in an up-to-date way, and I like their essentially modern self-awareness, which means we can have lots of…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster