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• Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
• Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
• I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
• I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
• I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
• Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
• Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood
• I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed… — Margaret Atwood
• I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody… — Margaret Atwood
• If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a… — Margaret Atwood
• Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of… — Norman Ralph Augustine

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