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"I try not to read too much in the media because they're either gonna put you on a pedestal too high or underplay you."

"It is possible that the Germans will attack, and it is necessary that the fleet be in readiness."

"Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there."

"He was able to read and write like a well bred man."

"What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell."

"And now the sagacious reader, who is capable of reading into these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception of the serious feelings …"

"Easy writing makes hard reading."

"I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together."

"The odds against becoming the next Frederick Forsythe are, of course, somewhere between merely exponential and astronomical-incredible. I’ll settle for a book-jacket with my name on it."

"athematics is not a popular subject... The reason for this is to be found in the common superstition that is but a continuation... of the fine art of arithmetic, of juggling with numbers. combat that …"

"The books of hawking assign to the different ranks of persons the sort of hawks proper to be used by them: and they are placed in the following order"

"With a few exceptions, lower population means fewer problems . When the Schumer Hits the Fan, there will be a mass exodus from the cities. Think of it as an army that is spreading out across a battlef…"

"Bibliography of Works by William Gibson at Centre for Language and Literature, at Athabasca University"

"I thank the Foreign Secretary for giving way. I assure him that at least 60 Labour Members voted against the Bill on Second Reading and I am sure that they will vote against the Maastricht treaty agai…"

"The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side . This choice of title was an attempt to suggest an outline broken by refraction, a distortion in the mirror of being, a …"

"I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the p…"

"Readers of histories and novels can hardly fail to be struck by their similarities. There are many histories that could pass for novels, and many novels that could pass for histories, considered in pu…"

"This book endeavors to clear away the mists which prevent so many from seeing the road."

"She is one of the most brilliant poets ever and has inspired thousands to write poetry on the level of the Vogons and cause widespread fear of such good poetry."

"Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author."