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"A lot of people who read my novel 'Smog City' ask me why I never killed off either of the two main characters. To be honest, it's because I've given them life. Not literally of course, but since I spent so much time developing and creating my characters, they've ended up with complex personalities, in fact they're almost sentient in a way, and to write them off as dead would be like killing a close friend to me."
"If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be."
"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
"There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out."
"Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts."
"A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work."
"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"
"We write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose in our gardens and snip the adverbs only to thread them in our hair. we write with no guarantees, no certainties, no promises of what might come and we do it anyway. this is who we are."
"I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment."
"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."
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"Success = Wisdom + Courage + Discipline. KNOW what to do, be BRAVE enough to do it, and LEAD YOURSELF to doing it again and again."
"One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him."
"Proformas rarely perform; missed projections are more often the norm. Still, we skew them up high, we miss but we try, for proformas which rarely perform."
"The smell of new office supplies is so satisfying while being kicked out of Staples for inappropriate behavior with a file folder is so embarrassing."
"A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place."
"Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success."
"If your personal brand were at a trade show alongside several thousand others, how would you fare? Now scale that to the global economy."
"If you're struggling to "think outside the box remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?"
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