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"When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from."
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"Imagination is phenomenal."
"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
"A creative mind is a spark of divinity."
"Flawed genius is better than flawless talent."
"People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think."
"I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life."
"If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode."
"It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write book."
"Be daring to push your ideas forward."
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"I sat in the dark and thought: There's no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones."
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"Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night."
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