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"Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary."
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"The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it."

"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."

"No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!"

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."

"Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred."

"I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing."

"I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian."
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"I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt."

"You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it."

"Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free."

"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
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