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John Shirley

"I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it."

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Asa Don Brown

"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."

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Asa Don Brown

"Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these - 'Chloe liked Olivia'. Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women."

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Asa Don Brown

"For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control. I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go."

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Asa Don Brown

"If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can."

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Asa Don Brown

"Then I realized the vital necessity of art. Human life, yes, you nurse people, you clean house, you market, but then comes the moment of solace and flight. i sit and write and summon other friends, other forms of life, other experiences, and the voyage and the exploration, the delving into character, the vast expanse of life's possibilities and potentialities, contemplation of future travels, of dazzling friendships, all this then makes the chores and the sacrifices beautiful because they are diverted toward some beautiful aim, they become part of the structure of a work of art."

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Asa Don Brown

"Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You're not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the forest."

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Asa Don Brown

"The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth."

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Asa Don Brown

"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."

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Asa Don Brown

"I like working among 'creative clutter'. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement."

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Asa Don Brown

"Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented."

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John Shirley
"Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine."

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John Shirley
"Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind."

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John Shirley
"I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill."

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John Shirley
"I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated."

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John Shirley
"I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic."

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John Shirley
"I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images."

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John Shirley
"Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them."

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John Shirley
"I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it."

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