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"This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy."
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"No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!"
"You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story."
"I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job."
"I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it."
"She looked at the empty page, which remained blank, apart from the small wet dots from her tears, for hours. Her mind was a turmoil of sadness, rage, fear and all those emotions that gave her inspiration. However her heart lacked the will as the empty words enclosed her soul pulling it down towards the frenzied ravenous imps that stalked hells pantry...."
"Creativity is like the ocean: sometimes it is an unstoppable wave bursting forth, crashing onto the shore, and overwhelmingly flowing with no hope of restraint; other times it is completely still, lingering aimlessly and endlessly, seemingly devoid of any inspiration."
"Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion and comes from a vision of uniqueness."
"A good imitation is the most perfect originality."
"I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he sees me whip out a bird in one stroke. Pa's gonna be mad when he sees me do that. He don't like no fancy stuff like that. He don't even like word writin'. Kinda scare 'im, I guess. Ever' time Pa seen writin', somebody took somepin away from 'im."
"What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ['Give me more images']"
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"You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend."
"I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow."
"Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest."
"When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience."
"Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave."
"If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept."
"Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled."
"Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself."
"To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet."
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