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Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close ...

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

I was a nerdy kid.

I'm terrified of cliches.

A real diamond is never perfect.

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

My goals aren't really commercial success.

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

I read Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat' when I was 11.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

My ribs ache from all the texts I'll never make time for.

I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.

Great writers probably shouldn't be ranked, at least not by me.

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

Short stories are not maybe the biggest deal in our culture anymore.

Indeed, every book on my shelves is a key to a little vault of memories.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here.

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.

Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

Sometimes my readers ask me what else they should read, and I recommend Sebald.

That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

We Americans are churning through fresh water at an alarming and unsustainable rate.

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.

You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.

The most amazing gift about being a novelist is that you get to pursue your curiosity every day.

You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

The world is so fundamentally interesting that it makes me fall in love with it a dozen times a day.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

I have always felt that it's a little artificial to divide the sciences and the arts on college campuses.

If your mind is anything like mine, it can stumble through a half-dozen different thoughts in a heartbeat.

Maybe scarcity isn't always a bad thing. Maybe scarcity is something to seek out, to fabricate for oneself.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

Gold and diamonds are nice, but clean, crisp, controlled water has long been the preeminent hallmark of the rich.

When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around the house.

What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.

I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, but I was always sort of an autodidact in science.

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.

I grew up in Cleveland, so my heart got attached at a young age to the freight train of sadness that is Cleveland sports.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

The preciousness of life and the changes of weather and the beauty of seasons - all those things have always sort of dazzled me.

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

Basketball games - and seasons - make great narratives; they feature distinct acts, heroes and villains, and guaranteed resolutions.

Lewis Robinson's first novel, 'Water Dogs,' is stuffed with snow. Open practically any page of this book, and crystals will shake out.

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