"When I was a boy, my grandfather taught……" — Steven Saylor
"When I was a boy, my grandfather taught me the list of kings: Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius the Elder, Servius Tullius. Tarquinius the Proud was to be the last, the very last, cast out and replaced forever by something called a republic. A mockery! A mistake! An experiment that failed! Today is the republic’s final day. Tomorrow, men will shout in the Forum, ‘All hail King Coriolanus!"
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12 Quotes by Steven Saylor
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There is a fine sense of freedom that comes from wandering about a familiar city with no particular destination in…
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Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and…
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We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us…
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Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily…
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Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of…
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Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees…
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Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us…
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Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other…
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I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.
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