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"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."
"I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer."
"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."
"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."
"Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts."
"It will be sent that, although the writer's love is verily a jealous love, it is a jealousy for and not of his creatures. He will tolerate no interference either with them or between them and himself."
"The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more."
"A writer always begins by being too complicated-he's playing at several games at once."
"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."
"If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be."
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"Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove."
"Metal business cards are a good investment. Especially if you were to meet Magneto. He would have no other choice but to be attracted to you."
"Contributors and distributors tend to do better at personal branding than takers and fakers."
"A brand precedes, parallels, and leaves a path behind. What your brand will say, is saying, and has said matters more the deeper we go into the globalized, digitized, connection economy."
"Do billboard salesmen record their sales on charts? If so, who's at the top of the billboard charts for billboard sales?"
"You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box."
"Deciding which relationships to pursue can be difficult. Especially if you're trying to get hired by the Magic 8 Ball factory and that little triangle thing isn't floating right."
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