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"I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober."
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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."
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"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."
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"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."
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"Imagination is a glorious wonder."
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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
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"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."
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"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."
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"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."
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"I earn the magic of words by writing.I learn the myth of worlds by imagining."
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"In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices."
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"When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing."
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"People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly."
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"The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises."
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"I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?"
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"The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves."
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"I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober."
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"At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded."
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"I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written."
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"A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much."
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