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• Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain… — Bernardino Ramazzini
• When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood… — Annie Dillard
• Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller.… — Unknown Author
• The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at… — Murasaki Shikibu
• Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING… — Gregory Benford
• Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried… — Jill Lepore
• We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on. — Glenn Danzig
• Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm,… — Edmund Spenser
• Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you;… — George Farquhar
• The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger,… — Unknown Author
• I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special… — Gillian Flynn
• Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate. — Leslie Fiedler

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