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Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.


Charles K. Kao

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K. A. APPLEGATE Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
K. A. APPLEGATE I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings.
K. A. APPLEGATE I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When anim...
K. A. APPLEGATE Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to...
LOUIS C. K. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might ...
J. K. ROWLING Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
J. K. ROWLING Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. ROWLING It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. ROWLING Coincidences are spiritual puns.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.
J. K. ROWLING The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understandin...
J. K. ROWLING It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'...
N. K. JEMISIN Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
N. K. JEMISIN Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo...
N. K. JEMISIN I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem s...
N. K. JEMISIN With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is...
N. K. JEMISIN It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a...
N. K. JEMISIN It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and ...
N. K. JEMISIN Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, techn...
N. K. JEMISIN