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New book from Daniel Quinn! If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways "One of the most troublesome questions I've been asked--and it's been asked hundreds of times--is: 'Where do these strange ideas of yours come from?' In the beginning, I thought it was just the usual where-do-you-get-your-ideas? question that all authors receive. My readers soon set me straight. Read more ... Excerpt 1 Excerpt 2 Excerpt 3

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• "Within the department I'm working in (Agronomy), the ideas put forth in Ishmael have had a significant impact on how we (students and professors) think about our research."
  -- Mark Liebig, Lincoln, NE

• "Your book made complete sense and it really opened my eyes to a lot of new ideas."
  -- Abby Foulds, Pittsburgh, PA

• "My Native American Studies instructor assigned [Ishmael] as extra credit.... I was apprehensive and didn't think it would be anything more than a stuffy textbook-style reading assignment.... What a revelation! I cannot tell you how much of a positive effect your book has had on me. It caused me to think, and to question on a plane of thought I never knew I possessed."
  -- Jane Graham-Free, Missoula, MT

• "[Ishmael] is one of the most thought-provoking books I have ever read. It has made me rethink my role in our society and the role of our society in the world."
  -- Lora A. Wieman, Menomonie, WI

• "[Ishmael] took my ideas of the world, which were crude and vague, and refined them. Your examples have inspired me and a few others in my classs to carry out the ideas of your book to a further extent."
  -- Taylor Geer, Mendocino, CA

• "A project for one of my classes was to write about the Navajo/Hopi land dispute. My greatest struggle was to try to communicate to the white instructor that the government intervention was based on a completely different concept than the Navajo and Hopi have about land. Had I read your book before that time I could have asked the instructor to read it, then maybe he and I would have been able to communicate."
  -- Lela K. Rhodes, Denver, CO

• "Your novel both disturbed and inspired me because it presented a unique, yet logical, way of looking at the state of our world."
  -- Chris Russell, Hurst, TX

• "As a philosophy major, I have been exposed to a good portion of the idealogy utilized in your novel, but never has it all been pulled together and presented in such a Zen-like simplicity."
  -- David Michael, Garnerville, NY

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