"Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing."

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Source : "Bigger than Dan Brown" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

Elizabeth Kostova

“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”
“Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!”
“When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.”
“Money isn't what motivates entrepreneurs; it is acknowledgement-a craving for your ideas to be acknowledged.”
“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.”

Source : Alexis de Tocqueville (1847). “Democracy in America”, p.11
“Why did god create a dual universe? So he might say â€˜Be not like me. I am alone.' And it might be heard.”
“I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.”

Source : "Baz Luhrmann (II)". Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.
“Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.”

Source : Johan Huizinga (1949). “Homo Ludens”, p.1, Taylor & Francis

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