"In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal."

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Source : "When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.

Hari Kunzru

#Imagination Quotes #Teens Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.”
“I think there's tremendous significance and opportunity in Americans seeing legally married gay couples treated with respect in our nation's capital.”
“He was the toast to her butter.”
“The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.”
“The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.”
“See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldnâ€™t screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good.”
“But I don't like working on lyrics publicly in the studio - I prefer to take them away and work on them in my bedroom.”
“I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.”

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