Reluctantly Bastian's thoughts turned back to reality. He was glad the Neverending Story had nothing to do with that. He didn't like books in which dull, cranky writers describe humdrum events in the very humdrum lives of humdrum people. Reality gave him enough of that kind of thing, why should he read about it? Besides, he couldn't stand it when a writer tried to convince him of something. And these humdrum books, it seemed to him, were always trying to do just that. Bastian liked books that were exciting or funny, or that made him dream. Books where made-up characters had marvelous adventures, books that made him imagine all sorts of things. Because one thing he was good at, possibly the only thing, was imagining things so clearly that he almost saw and heard them.
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CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Sections in the bookstore - Books You Haven't Read - Books You Needn't Read - B... ITALO CALVINO We knew he was going to be good. He was very quick, he was really quick. One thing that impressed me... BILL CLIFFORD One thing about him is he has always stayed in shape so he can do these kinds of things. Not many pl... SAM WYCHE (On WWI:) A man of importance had been shot at a place I could not pronounce in Swahili o... BERYL MARKHAM In one horrible moment the last piece of the prophecy became clear. So bid him take care,... SUZANNE COLLINS Keith had it a little better than most kids here because he had two parents in the same household wh... JEFF HILL She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. HOLLY BLACK Well, what do you want me to say?' The Doctor was so angry he was almost hovering. 'Well done on mar... JAMES GOSS It didn't have anything to do with him being elected. 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HOWARD WILLIAMS It was this that made him attractive to women, who liked the sense that he was not altogether manly.... VIRGINIA WOOLF That pass to Antwon (Courington), the first touchdown, that was all him. I had a running play called... JAY JOHNSON Daisy looked up at him with the kind of expression that Jesus might have given someone who had just ... NEIL GAIMAN Philemon and other figures of my fantasies brought home to me the crucial insight that there are thi... C.G. JUNG Adam finally sat down on one of the pews. Laying his cheek against the smooth back of it, he looked ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about hi... CARSON MCCULLERS While this is all very amusing, the kiss that will free the girl is the kiss that she most desires,�... CASSANDRA CLARE When my younger son was 13 years old, he asked me to read 'Swallows and Amazons' to him whil... MICHELLE MAGORIAN He had never liked October. 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MICHAEL JORDAN Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-h... MICHAEL LEUNIG Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western ... MICHAEL NOVAK I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the... GEORGE MICHAEL Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and ... MICHAEL ANTI One of the most unusual shuttles operates at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Site in Texas, ... MICHAEL FROME A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of. MICHAEL BOLTON Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach ... MICHAEL BOLTON The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor... MICHAEL MOORE As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable ... MICHAEL PATERNITI I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River... MICHAEL KORYTA The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional pow... MICHAEL MANDELBAUM I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it... MICHAEL GRAVES With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time... MICHAEL DOUGLAS Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around. MICHAEL STIPE I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cat... MICHAEL SHOWALTER To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerf... MICHAEL DELONG Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking abo... MICHAEL ARRINGTON You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based eth... MICHAEL POLLAN A boundary is really something artificial we made up. The ecosystem and landscape continue. MICHAEL FROME I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be... MICHAEL HAYDEN For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should ha... MICHAEL KORDA In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the trut... MICHAEL MUSTO Life does not happen to us, it happens from us. MICHAEL WICKETT I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- a... MICHAEL SPECTER You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult ... MICHAEL MORPURGO I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon. MICHAEL LEUNIG The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide th... MICHAEL KORDA Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the split... MICHAEL MEADE Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins. MICHAEL WINTER The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while q... MICHAEL KORDA We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others. MICHAEL JORDAN The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea... MICHAEL JORDAN When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical abili... MICHAEL JORDAN You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba... MICHAEL GREGER As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:... MICHAEL GREGER In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco... MICHAEL SHERMER