“Today summoned painfully to earth by a short fat English magician with a dangerous stammer.
Dangerous because any verbal hiccup while giving me my orders would break my bonds and uncage my savage wrath. Ooh, gave myself a bit of a shiver writing that. That's literary talent.”

— Jonathan Stroud

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British writer of fantasy fiction 1970

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“Today summoned painfully to earth by a short fat English magician with a dangerous stammer*.*Dangerous because any verbal hiccup while giving me my orders would break my bonds and uncage my savage wrath. Ooh, gave myself a bit of a shiver writing that. That's literary talent.”

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“Today summoned painfully to earth by a short fat English magician with a dangerous stammer.
Dangerous because any verbal hiccup while giving me my orders would break my bonds and uncage my savage wrath. Ooh, gave myself a bit of a shiver writing that. That's literary talent.”