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"I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now."
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"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."

"I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least."

"My pond life with hydra is over, now I'm into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper.."

"Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don't have the fucking part in writing a book."

"Do more than just exist, create to inspire!"

"Are you considering becoming a creative person? Too late, you already are one. To even call somebody "a creative person" is almost laughably redundant; creativity is the hallmark of our species. We have the sense for it; we have the curiosity for it; we have the opposable thumbs for it; we have the rhythm for it; we have the language and the excitement and the innate connection to divinity for it.If you're alive, you're a creative person. You and I and everyone you know are descended from tens of thousands of years of makers. Decorators, tinkerers, storytellers, dancers, explorers, fiddlers, drummers, builders, growers, problem-solvers, and embellishers--these are our common ancestors."

"I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it."

"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."
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"I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory."


"Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated."


"So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out."


"I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way."


"A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind."


"I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it."
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