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"I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost."
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"There is no adventure like the journey of life."

"You have everything within you to do great things in this world. Maybe, you are inspired to sing a song, write a book or poems, create art in various forms. Or you may decide to find a cure for disease, end world hunger, prevent abuse, or take a stand politically. The question is how to begin the process of fulfilling your vision. Start where you are and use the resources you have to build from there. Inspiration is what motivates you to achieve your remarkable ideas. Also it takes time and dedication to excel to the next level."

"When you're crying, your tears may be watering the seeds of your come-back."

"How would your life be different if.You approached all relationships with authenticity and honesty? Let today be the day.You dedicate yourself to building relationships on the solid foundation of truth and authenticity."

"Tombstones and legacies are for the dead.I will live for now. Impact the world for now. Change lives for now. Laugh for now. Love for now. I will experience the length, depth, and breadth of life for now. Later will come soon enough and I will be so tired that I shall welcome the rest it offers.. But for now, ONWARD!"

"It's hard not to stand in awe and enchantment with the beauty in which nature expresses herself."

"Within the scope of universal time, it seems I'll be dead a whole lot longer than I'll be alive. So while I'm here, I will not worship death; I'll worship life. I'll live life to the fullest. victories, losses, successes, mistakes, love, and hurt. I'll live and learn to the fullest; without apology."

"The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it."

"My soul, I've found, has puppet strings to make me droop or give me wings.And music is the puppeteerthat turns my ear to hear."

"History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this."
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"That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all."

"No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking."

"I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity."

"Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me."

"When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words."

"I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself."

"I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels."

"My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth."
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