C. S. Lewis Quotes
The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
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For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.
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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
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I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
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Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise.
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible, I will find a way to tell the next story.
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I had all these sparkles I'd collected and wanted to work in, but when I originally started writing it and it was originally this novel about all these people set in 1666, what I was so interested in was the New Science.
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The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.
