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"I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!"
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"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."

"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."

"Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other."

"You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover."

"The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind."

"We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas."

"Let your actions sing the best melody of life so that everyone can joyfully listen to it."

"You take a universal concept, something that has been done a million times (because everything has been done a million times), and add a fresh twist to it. Something no one saw coming. But mostly fresh writing! Keep it clean, simple, and compelling."

"As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees a guileless piece of paper, virgin and harmless, and persecutes it till it is black with words, and then besmirches its sister, and so on, through the quire."
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"Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh."


"There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne."


"No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back."


"Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either."


"My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!"


"I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!"
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