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"I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea."
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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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"Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith."
Faith
"Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down."
Press
"Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current."
Horror
"I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea."
Creativity
"I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious."
Creativity
"I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie."
Movies
"I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural."
Horror
"I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's."
Reading
"And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence."
Truth
"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
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