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- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley
- The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. — John Sladek
- In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God. — John Sladek
- I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world. — John Sladek