“Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars.”

“Calvin: I'd hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”

“Someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff.”

“This moment will just be another story someday.”

“Reading is exciting. Reading is fun. Reading is cool. There is nothing quite like the thrill of opening a book and being drawn into another world to meet new people and to discover their stories - it’s like making new friends”

“I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they'd been about.”

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”

“The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.”

“I decided I don't want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I'd like to be reading bedtime stories to my children for another two or three years.”