"Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it."

-- Alan Dean Foster

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“I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.”
“Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.”
“I shut up everything inside. Everything." Words ground out through clenched teeth. "I thought if I could hold it, just hold it, it would be fine. But it's not." "Why?" she asked. "Why are you losing control so badly?" The answer, when it came, broke Sascha's heart. "Hawke." It was an almost soundless whisper. "Oh, Sienna." She stroked her hand over the girl's hair, even as her mind worked at piercing speed. "Has it been cumulative?" Sienna nodded. "The second I met him, everything crumbled, my shields, my conditioning, everything!”
“I'm not putting myself up as the epitome of virtue. I certainly am living a non-traditional life. But it is also a loving life and a very supportive one. I think that both in this, and the previous relationship, I think that I've been doing the best I can.”
“It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years.”
“You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.”
“I need them and they need me to need them”

Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.66, The Overlook Press
“Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.”

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