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"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."
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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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"If I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you really begin to learn something about a thing not to want to write about it but rather to keep on learning about it always and at no time, unless you are very egotistical, which, of course, accounts for many books, will you be able to say: now I know all about this and will write about it."
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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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"Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it."
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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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"Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over."
Time
"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking."
Creativity
"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."
Humor
"The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather."
Writing
"It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it."
Psychology
"It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief."
Life
"The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal."
Creativity
"The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive."
Society
"We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health."
Health
"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."
Imagination
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