David Liss Quotes

• The world is full of wonders that cannot be measured. That is why they are wonders.

  David Liss

  World, Wonder

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• Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've read in quite some time and just plain reading fun. M.J. Rose is at the top of her game, and that is saying something.

  David Liss

  Clever, Fun, Reading

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• I didnt want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

  David Liss

  Book, Writing, Technology

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• Sometimes you make your mistakes with your eyes wide open.

  David Liss

  Mistake, Eye, Sometimes

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• Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research for readers of popular history, and do so impressively.

  David Liss

  Important, Research, Republic

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• I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.

  David Liss

  League, Justice, Fans

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• I enjoy my pettiness with a dose of wit.

  David Liss

  Enjoy, Wit, Dose

  David Liss (2008). “The Whiskey Rebels: A Novel”, p.256, Random House

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• In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

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  Past, Interesting, People

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• I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion of some interesting text, usually, but not always, philosophical.

  David Liss

  Couple, Book, Philosophical

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