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"The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above."
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"You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover."
"Imagination is phenomenal."
"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
"Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way."
"A creative mind is a spark of divinity."
"Flawed genius is better than flawless talent."
"People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think."
"I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life."
"If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode."
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"The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence."
"A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends."
"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."
"Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you."
"The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven."
"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."
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