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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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"Our head is designed to broaden our capability of analyzing facts, events and draw the right conclusions."

"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."

"Emotionally intelligent people can focus their emotions to improve performance and productivity."

"If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area."

"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."

"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."

"I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine."

"The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure."

"Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so."

"It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality."
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"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!"


"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 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."


"The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis."


"It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself."


"As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm."
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