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"In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you."
Immigration
"I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese."
Family
"I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer."
Writing
"I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from."
Imagination
"Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses."
Inspirational
"I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression."
Choice
"I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success."
Success
"I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water."
Pain
"I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life."
Life
"No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant."
Family
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"Then the dwarves forgot their joy and their confident boasts of a moment before and cowered down in fright. Smaug was still to be reckoned with. It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."
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Personal Development
"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."
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Personal Development
"Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society."
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Personal Development
"Fear deprives us the fullness of existence."
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Personal Development
"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."
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Personal Development
"A monster's worst fear is of being found."
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Personal Development
"It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth."
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Personal Development
"Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it."
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Personal Development
"Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity."
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Personal Development
"How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next-if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions-you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to."
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Personal Development
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