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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

- Mark Twain Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does all the work.

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There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

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We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

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The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.

- Leonard Woolf Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

- David Guterson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

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Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.

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Anyone can be a barbarian it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

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To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

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It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.

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I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings

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I'm delighted. I don't know if he is, but I'm delighted to welcome him back to the show, this time here in person in our studios in L.A.

- Tavis Smiley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

- Eric S. Raymond Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

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This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham.

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Lately, I find that I'm working on three or more projects at any given time. For some reason, this is a very comfortable way for me to work.

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Freedom without limits is just a word.

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I am not recommending this sort of experience, but I think that in writing this particular story I was remembering the quality of it all.

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Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

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At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.

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Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

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It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research.

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It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

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I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.

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