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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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"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."
People
"The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis."
Influence
"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."
Work
"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."
Intelligence
"When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it."
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"I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people."
People
"Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?"
Fiction
"Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche."
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"As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm."
Family
"I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!"
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"Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another."
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"Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation" the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true."
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"Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent."
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"Smartness without wisdom is stupidity."
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"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
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"A researcher that has a brain that functions differently from their peers is at an advantage, as they can see things that the others cannot."
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"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."
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"Emotionally intelligent people can focus their emotions to improve performance and productivity."
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"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."
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"None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us."
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