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"Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps."
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"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"

"No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist."

"I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it."

"But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires."

"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."

"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."

"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."

"A good dose of fantasy is exercise for your sensibilities, it keeps your avatar strong."

"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."
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"There will always be one or two things bothering the person next to you. And if that person happens to be looking heavenward, it's because it helps us to remind ourselves that God is bigger than our problems."

"But men are bound to saySome things that, though untrue,Will get you down the aisleUntil you say "I do."

"Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it."

"I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping the physical presence of the best among multitudes. And I only have one shelf."

"Don't stay in the harbour and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn't mean you have to be."

"Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its place, no time is spent on something else."

"Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care."
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