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Favorite authorsDiane Ackerman, A. S. Byatt, Jacqueline Carey, Diane Duane, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth George, Laurell K. Hamilton, Peter Høeg, Guy Gavriel Kay, Laurie R. King, Madeleine L'Engle, Alice Munro, Orhan Pamuk, Dorothy L. Sayers, Philip Yancey, W. B. Yeats, Timothy Zahn (Shared favorites)

About meObsessed collector of quotes. A random sample of favourites, to be changed out, well, randomly:

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. "
- Thomas Edison

“Originality has nothing to do with priority. An image is like a musical key; just because someone used G-minor before doesn’t make Mozart a copycat.”
--Stephen Mitchell


"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
--Douglas Adams

“To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
--Elbert Hubbard

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
~T.S. Eliot

and, of course:

“Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.”
--W.H. Auden

About my library“To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.”
--Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”

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Real nameKatrina L. MacWhirter

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Member sinceMay 7, 2006

Currently readingA Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein by Stephen Hawking
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
Winston Churchill - The Photobiography by Michael Patterson
City of Glass (Mortal Instruments) by Cassandra Clare