"I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed."

-- Jack Vance

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“I had always loved horror films, so I wanted to do something in the horror genre but wanted it to be sweet and charming at the same time. Because there's a difference between watching horror, where you can leave it behind, and writing horror, where you have to live in it for months and months at a time.”
“Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.”
“Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?”

Source : "Absurdities, Scandals & Stupidities in Politics". Book by Hakeem Shittu and Callie Query, p. 106, 2006.
“There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.”

Source : "A life in poetry: Ciaran Carson". Interview With Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.
“Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.”
“Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.”
“Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.”

Source : "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.
“The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.”

Source : George W. S. Trow (1981). “Within the Context of No Context”, p.82, Atlantic Monthly Press

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