This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.


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I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I hav...
V. E. SCHWAB
So many people think that if you're writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as...
V. E. SCHWAB
I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across ...
KING GEORGE V
Nothing is wasted.
E. V. LUCAS
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its language...
E. V. LUCAS
The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
E. V. LUCAS
You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
E. V. LUCAS
The art of life is to show your hand.
E. V. LUCAS
There are two words for everything.
E. V. LUCAS
There is no diplomacy like candor.
E. V. LUCAS
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. LUCAS
Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
E. V. LUCAS
There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
E V LUCAS
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
ANDREW V. MASON
Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS
Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through ...
HARVEY V. FINEBERG
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, din...
V. S. NAIPAUL
Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.
H. V. WADE
It's counterproductive to lower my price, because I have to sell more units to make up for that ...
MARK V. HURD
In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the star...
C. V. RAMAN
Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. PRITCHETT
We come and go just like ripples in a stream.
JOHN V. POLITIS
The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.
MAY V. SMITH
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. NAIPAUL
I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar t...
MARIA V. SNYDER
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is...
EUGENE V. DEBS
There is always a double meaning in life...
NADEEM V ABDU
How is the Empire?
KING GEORGE V
It's a dirty way to fight, but I'm late for lunch."
- Valek to Yelena
MARIA V. SNYDER
Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just ...
JENNIFER V. CLANCY
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V. S. PRITCHETT
There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. LUCAS
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E. V. LUCAS
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling o...
ANDREW V. MADSON
Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage an...
JAMES V. FORRESTAL
The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
V. S. PRITCHETT
You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against ...
E. V. COOKE
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps ...
HAROLD V MELCHERT
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
V. S. PRITCHETT
Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.
E. V. COOKE
Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS