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This book has been so thoroughly written and rewritten that I do think I have weighed every word: certainly this is my ideal way of writing.

— Michael Cawood Green

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Travelling is the very nature of fiction.

I only know that when one is writing truly creatively, one works in images, not ideas.

I am fascinated by, and have written on, literal and cultural translation.

In essence fiction is about the challenge of otherness.

A comma is a political act, in certain circumstances.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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