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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 are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
"Life is the music of your soul, all you need to do is to listen hard."
"Belief driven by determination is one key factor governing whether what you pursue becomes real or not."
"History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this."
"Open your eyes to what wonder exists in the world. You have within your the power to create the life you want."
"It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking."
"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."
"Gloomy ones must learn to light the Fire of Inspiration " the Spark that will clear the Dark within."
"The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps."
"Many men know the recipes of life, but only few go into the kitchen to cook it. Go make it happen!"
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"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."
"The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye."
"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."
"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."
"You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable."
"My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten."
"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."
"I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression."
"I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house."
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