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"You only need enough experience to master the art."
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"Not many abilities are inherent. Most are acquired through patient practice, and those that are inherent are enhanced and utilized through practice too."

"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."

"You only need enough experience to master the art."

"I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way."

"You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies."

"You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades."

"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."

"There's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another cash bracket."

"To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery."
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