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"Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves."
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"Our reaction to any situation will determine the outcome."
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"What await you, golden treasures of risks taken."
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"Imagination is heavenly."
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"You have to create the life you want."
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"Light has no value if there is no darkness."
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"Love is the strength of life."
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"Be inspire to explore your world."
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"Seek to exceed your own expectations."
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"The day is coming when your vision will become a reality."
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"You can fly as high as you can."
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"And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War."
War
"I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry."
Poetry
"I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something."
Success
"I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper."
Writing
"I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe."
People
"My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels."
Success
"Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves."
Inspirational
"When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking."
Society
"But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience."
Experience
"I've never shown anybody a draft of anything."
Writing
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