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What's more, I was free to do anything that did not hurt others that strengthened me and helped me i...
SAMUEL R. DELANY

I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, accord...
SAMUEL R. DELANY

I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary...
SAMUEL R. DELANY

I shall always be able to come up with new fantasies. As long as there are people walking around in ...
SAMUEL R. DELANY

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it'...
SAMUEL R. DELANY

Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The mir...
SAMUEL R. DELANY

The cycles of Eric’s life took in stony beaches and pine forests where you could walk in a dayligh...
SAMUEL R. DELANY

To be sure, the Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom, even when it takes you through the Val...
SAMUEL R. DELANY

I spend a lot of time thinking, if not daydreaming. People think of me as a genre writer, and a genr...
SAMUEL R. DELANY

One picks one's way about through the glass and aluminum doors, the receptionists' smiles, the lunch...
SAMUEL R. DELANY

It’s not that men and women are identical; it’s just that they are so near identical in all but ...
SAMUEL R. DELANY

But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like re...
SAMUEL R. DELANY Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
VICKI DELANY Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, i...
VICKI DELANY The CWC is a professional organization for professional writers. Non-published writers are welcome a...
VICKI DELANY On a personal basis, when I decided to become a writer, about the last reason I did it was because I...
VICKI DELANY I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure ...
DANA DELANY I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life.
DANA DELANY I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel li...
DANA DELANY We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-...
DANA DELANY If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room ...
DANA DELANY I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason...
DANA DELANY Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many chan...
DANA DELANY I have faith in my imperfections!
DANA DELANY I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are ...
DANA DELANY In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thi...
DANA DELANY I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easil...
DANA DELANY If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, w...
MARTIN DELANY We must make an issue, create an event, and establish a national position for ourselves: and never m...
MARTIN DELANY A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-h...
MARTIN DELANY Holy Hell! That was totally badass
SHANNON DELANY If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for ...
DANA DELANY Beauty's only skin deep.
Everybody has ugly days.
We're all made of the same stuff underne...
SHANNON DELANY Every people should be originators of their own destiny.
MARTIN DELANY Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can...
MARTIN DELANY You sure are quick to strip, boy,” Dad said, clearly
disapproving. “Lemme get this straight...
SHANNON DELANY Max,' I said, looking up at him, 'I love the Russian heritage you guys are so willing to share, but ...
SHANNON DELANY You know, considering your IQ, you're really socially retarded sometimes.
SHANNON DELANY With the advent of DVD, you can watch it whenever you want to,
DANA DELANY There are only so many stories, and half of that has to do with the execution of it and half of it h...
DANA DELANY There is so little time. We need to make every moment count.
SHANNON DELANY Liberty is a constant battle between government; who would limit it, people; who would concede it, a...
SAMUEL R. YOUNG JR. Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.
SARAH LOUISE DELANY

I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the worl...
ANNIE ELIZABETH DELANY

Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning...
ANNIE ELIZABETH DELANY

When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and wh...
ANNIE ELIZABETH DELANY When you get real old, honey, you realizre there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. ...
SARAH LOUISE DELANY

Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

I don't like allegories.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write un...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religio...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the eart...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabi...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not b...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

Not all who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wis...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one w...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step ont...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has go...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Then the enchantment became more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. Th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does no...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire&...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one tur...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could no...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Short cuts make long delays.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a di...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things on...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not t...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or j...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as wel...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more p...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally sma...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Little by little, one travels far.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wa...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy t...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my he...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and d...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a fri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villa...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feel...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could wri...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, an...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separate...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start wit...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are...
R. KELLY I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &...
R. KELLY I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the...
R. KELLY I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But...
R. KELLY When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something...
R. KELLY Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
R. KELLY If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That...
R. KELLY You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz...
R. KELLY I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because...
R. KELLY In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo...
R. KELLY I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,...
R. KELLY I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
R. KELLY I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me...
R. KELLY Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated....
R. KELLY You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seein...
R. KELLY Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood phot...
R. KELLY Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was insp...
R. KELLY My greatest competition is, well, me.
R. KELLY I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, bu...
R. KELLY Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys arou...
R. KELLY I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a l...
R. KELLY I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
R. KELLY I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm...
R. KELLY Wasted time means wasted lives.
R. SHANNON Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach fille...
R. VENNING It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
R. PALMER Life is too short to learn German.
R. PORSON If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas tru...
R. FOREMAN Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
R. DRABEK Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest ...
R. TURNBULL We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away.
R. SOUTHWELL The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.
R. POCOCK When God created the first human beings, God led them around the garden of Eden and said: Look at my...
R. KOHELET Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach fill...
R. VENNING Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines.
R. STEVENS 'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's...
R. KELLY If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
R. KELLY In my community, mental health isn't taken seriously enough. Therapy is replaced by prayer. Tears ar...
FRIDA R. I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in...
R. KELLY People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you withou...
R. KELLY My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around ...
R. KELLY When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago ...
R. KELLY They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.
R. KELLY Day drinking with a broken heart
is like selling loose Cuban cigars like Newports,
tryna...
FRIDA R. The only good ideas are the ones I can take credit for.
R. STEVENS Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that'...
R. STEVENS Wasting sarcasm is a sin.
R. STEVENS Why is it OK to love without a reason, but anger requires justification?
R. STEVENS I'm NOT short. I prefer to think there is simply more space above my head for word balloons full of ...
R. STEVENS Ever heard Victoria's REAL secret? Too much support hurts.
R. STEVENS Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the pi...
R. KELLY I wouldn't mind dying - it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
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