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• We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

  Jared Diamond

  Social, Uncomfortable, Considering

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• Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.

  Terry Eagleton

  Book, Bus Stops, Everyday

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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• I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?

  Maggie Grace

  Art, Believe, Sight

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• I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

  David Guterson

  Generations, Theme, Endure

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• I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

  Kate Adie

  Modern Novel, Orange, Judging

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• I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

  Kate Adie

  Violence, Kind

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• If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!

  Kate Adie

  Faults, Way, Danger

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• The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

  Kate Adie

  Silence, Democracy, Information

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• My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Writing, Years, Pay

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• I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Thinking, Titles, Different

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• If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

  Lynn Abbey

  Writing, Ideas, Always Trying

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• When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

  Lynn Abbey

  Ideas, Heartbeat, Cloudy

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• SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

  Piers Anthony

  Impossible

  Interview with Dag R., www.sffworld.com. June 5, 2000.

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• There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

  Sherman Alexie

  Thinking, Adults, World

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• So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Dark, Race, Adults

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• As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

  David Eagleman

  British, University, Undergraduate

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• Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

  Garth Ennis

  Book, Character, Gothic

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• A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.

  Abel Ferrara

  Scripts, Pieces, Process

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

  Robert Duvall

  Race, Two, Culture

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• I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, College, Two

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• When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  War, America, Choices

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• Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.

  Brit Hume

  Tv News, People, Tilt

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• Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Thinking, Helping, Reader

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• I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Book, Email, Able

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