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"I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident."
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"Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes."
"Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you."
"Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation."
"Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great."
"Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth."
"It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here."
"The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent."
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"But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms."
"I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper."
"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."
"I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action."
"I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood."
"There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."
"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine."
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