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““Had Dr. Seuss been a slightly insane pornographer, he might have written a book like this.--reviewing Nicholson Baker's House of Holes””

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To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only…

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“Final Fantasy VII awoke American gaming to the possibilities of narrative dynamism and the importance of relatively developed characters—no small inspiration to take from…

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“You have agency, yes, but what of it? It is just a game. But when a game does this well, you lose track of…

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“There are not many mediums whose Dantes and Homers one can ring up and talk to. With games, one can.”

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“The world, finally, is no longer large, and to ignore it likely requires more effort than to simply take notice.”

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“This is one of the most suspect things about the game form: A game with an involving story and poor gameplay cannot be considered…

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We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates…

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To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.

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Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.

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“Hocking was slender in the way that writers and musicians are sometimes slender: not out of any desire or design but rather because his…

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“Games such as Mass Effect allow the gamer a freedom of decision that can be evilly enlivening or nobly self-congratulating, but these games become…

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“And so, my beloved Kermit, my dear little Hussein, at the moment America changed forever, your father was wandering an ICBM-denuded watseland, nervously monitoring…

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I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Fulton J. Sheen

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

Christopher K. Krebs

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

Louisa May Alcott

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

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