"I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price."

-- Walter Jon Williams

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“Rocks are like wreck magnets and ships run aground today in pretty much the same locations and for the same reasons they did thousands of years ago.”

Source : "Concordia Not the First Sunk by Treacherous Reef" by Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News, February 7, 2012.
“Auditioning is a horrible experience because you know you are being absolutely scrutinized and judged. There are days where you can do it and days where it's just not happening, and I feel like that's how it is with all artists; you have some days it kind of works.”

Source : "Futures: ‘Flight’ Breakout Kelly Reilly on Auditioning Opposite Denzel Washington and Why She’ll Never Fly With Robert Zemeckis". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. December 06, 2012.
“I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.”

Source : "Garrett Hedlund Exclusive Interview TRON: LEGACY; Plus an ON THE ROAD Update". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 27, 2010.
“In this age of video games and cell phones, there must still be a place for knots, tree houses, and stories of incredible courage.”

Source : "The Dangerous Book for Boys". Book by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden, June 2006.
“There are so many little dyings How do we know which one of them is death?”
“You need to let yourself be happy. Or else, what's the point of anything?”

Source : Kass Morgan (2013). “The 100: Book One”, p.93, Hachette UK
“I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thrilled when the mother, without prompting, began to sign her newborn. Baby, drink milk. Baby, play ball. And when the baby died, the mother stood over the body, her wrinkled hands moving with animal grace, forming again and again the words: Baby, come hug, Baby come hug, fluent now in the language of grief.”

Source : Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.40, Simon and Schuster
“I think Iâ€™ll dismember the world and then Iâ€™ll dance in the wreckage.”

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