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"If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young."
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"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."
"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."
"There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea."
"Dyslexia is the affliction of a frozen genius."
"Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart."
"Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking for yourself."
"You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot."
"It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence."
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"People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me."
"I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped."
"As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm."
"I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world."
"I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault."
"I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work."
"I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons."
"The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis."
"At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer."
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