"Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all ...

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"Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an a...
"the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
"Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in ...
"Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd,...
"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.