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"Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world."
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"Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others."
"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."
"Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon."
"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
"Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart."
"Think innocently. Think intelligently. Think imaginatively. Think inventively."
"First drafts don't have to be perfect. They just have to be written."
"Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience."
"I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults."
"My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer."
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"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."
"Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world."
"I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking."
"It's true that heroes are inspiring but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?"
"It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books-not part of me, all of me-and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be."
"You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there."
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