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"My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it."
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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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"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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"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."
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"I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go."
Thinking
"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."
Editing
"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song."
Poetry
"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
Prose
"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."
Sophists
"I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out."
Shaggy
"I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty."
Emotional
"There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be."
Society
"I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions."
Theory
"I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do."
Poetry
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