"When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too."

-- Sharon Creech

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“I was like a lost moonâ€•my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolationâ€•that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity.”
“There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.”
“I walk the world in wonder.”
“I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.”
“Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free?”
“I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form.”
“This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you canâ€™t get fresh fruit in the shops.”

Source : Geoff Ryman (2011). “Paradise Tales”, p.240, Small Beer Press
“As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”

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