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I love Sherlock Holmes, but I love any of these old stories where the writer was paid by the word, so the adventures just continue forever. They are almost like they were meant to be read out loud.

~Biz Stone

Topics: Adventures Almost Any Continue Forever Holmes Just Like Loud Love Meant Meant To Be Old Out Paid Read Sherlock Sherlock Holmes Stories Were Where Word Writer I Love

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Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.

~Brian Jacques

Topics: Actually Adventures Based Dreams Friends Get Ideas Lived Often Sometimes Stories

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Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them.

~Caroline Lawrence

Topics: Adventures America Child Enough Every Growing Growing Up Huckleberry Finn Like Liked Love Read Them Tom Up Well Well Enough

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Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and his playful, heartfelt, more fantastical novels like 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.'

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: Adventures Amazing Between Boy Clay Easily Heartfelt His Like Long Michael More Moved Mysteries Novels Pittsburgh Playful Policemen Realism Union Wonder

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So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.

~Cathy Rigby

Topics: About Adventures Also Believe Bittersweet Does Fear Fly Kids Leaving Like People Quality Really Sort You

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A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened.

~Cheryl Strayed

Topics: About Adventures Away Difference Fun Go Happened Hard Have Fun Having Impulse Lot Makes Off People Perspective Really Right Right Away Some Them Write

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As a child, I copied Tenniel's illustrations from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' obsessively, particularly his drawing of the white rabbit in waistcoat and frockcoat, umbrella tucked under one arm and a fob watch in paw, a look of suppressed panic in his eye.

~Chris Riddell

Topics: Adventures Alice Arm Child Copied Drawing Eye His Illustrations Look Panic Particularly Paw Rabbit Suppressed Tucked Umbrella Watch White Wonderland

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My parents waited to have me and my sister - my dad was 43 when my mother had me, and my mom was 38. They purposefully waited until they had had their adventures in life so that we wouldn't represent the end of their freedom.

~Christian Borle

Topics: Adventures Dad End Freedom Had Life Me Mom Mother Parents Represent Sister Until Waited

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I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Adventures Enough Fill Full Had Hardly House Memoir Some White White House

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My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Adventures Advice Best Choose Friends Great Great Stories Make Mistakes Poorly Stories Writers Your

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