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"You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else."
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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
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"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."
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"Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these - 'Chloe liked Olivia'. Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women."
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"For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control. I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go."
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"If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can."
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"Then I realized the vital necessity of art. Human life, yes, you nurse people, you clean house, you market, but then comes the moment of solace and flight. i sit and write and summon other friends, other forms of life, other experiences, and the voyage and the exploration, the delving into character, the vast expanse of life's possibilities and potentialities, contemplation of future travels, of dazzling friendships, all this then makes the chores and the sacrifices beautiful because they are diverted toward some beautiful aim, they become part of the structure of a work of art."
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"Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You're not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the forest."
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"The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth."
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"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."
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"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"
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"I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz."
Business
"HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues."
Friendship
"Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money."
Money
"I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!"
Being
"It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad."
Music
"You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else."
Creativity
"Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money."
Money
"The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal."
Opportunity
"In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player."
Lie
"I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris."
Success
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