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"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea."
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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."
"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."
"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."
"Imagination is a glorious wonder."
"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
"Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it."
"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."
"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."
"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."
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"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends."
"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain."
"The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round."
"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
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