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"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."
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"If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write."
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"It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold."
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"Skill to do comes of doing."
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"The key is in the craft."
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"The master initiate of any craft appears magical to the uninitiated."
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"Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game."
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"A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will."
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"Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy."
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"The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King."
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"Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind."
Innocence
"Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them."
Illusion
"I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it."
Creativity
"I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images."
People
"I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill."
Skill
"I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic."
Writing
"I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated."
Nature
"Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine."
Nature
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