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"Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses."
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"You were not born to make only a living but to live life."
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"You have to believe in your dreams, to reach out for your dreams."
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"Like a bird, fly against the wind of opinions to reach your destination."
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"You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
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"Without challenge we become too comfortable with life."
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"When you travel, appreciate the culture of the people in the land."
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"Life is never ordinary, it is always a wonder, it is always magical."
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"Your destiny is the only path to be travelled by you."
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"Life will fulfill your expectations."
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"You have to work harder to achieve your goals."
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"I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer."
Writing
"I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from."
Imagination
"It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life."
Life
"No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant."
Family
"My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of."
Time
"My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have."
Family
"I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success."
Success
"There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path."
Success
"I didn't fear failure. I expected failure."
Fear
"You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'"
Creativity
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