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"Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech th…"

"I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son A Personal Matter, I believe I knew the most important thing: there is not any persona…"

"When I was a boy, the bestselling books were often the books that were on your piano teacher's shelf. I mean, Steinbeck, Hemingway, some Faulkner. Faulkner actually had, considering how hard he is to …"

"One receives the impression from his writings that he made it his plan to read any book whatever that no one else can bear to read."

"No mathematician can give any meaning to language about matter, force, inertia, used in text-books of mechanics."

"My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers."

"Epigrams in Programming Complete text"

"Reference to Edirille Bandara in Lanka Library"

"Melcher Book Award acceptance speech in RealPlayer video or audio formats."

"JG Ballard with Cronenberg: Crash Site about Crash, and the movie based on the novel."

"The world needs this renewal! In so many of our societies, side by side with material prosperity, a spiritual desert is spreading interior emptiness, unnamed fears, a quiet sense of despair. How many …"

"As Good as Great Poetry Gets" by Daniel Mendelsohn in The New York Review of Books"

"I find that many modern fantasies explain things away far too easily, which makes a lot of it overly familiar . Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their …"

"This book represents the crown and summit of everything I have to say that anyone who doesn’t know me personally may care to listen to. I’ve written a guide to the Qur’an and a biography of Muhammad, …"

"I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil."

"My next door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration."

"It should be possible, in a 'debreviation' mode, to type 'clr' on the keyboard and have 'The Council on Library Resources, Inc.' appear on the display."

"Tense, unnerved, and close to madness before writing—and when I read what I’ve written it looks so calm."

"Alfred de Zayas on Facebook"

"I will be reading the poetry and I will read it aloud because I will be, you know, whispering the poetry, because poetry, I really believe, has to do with a sense of communicating and the idea of read…"