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"My best ideas come when I distance myself from day-to-day operations. It gives me more focus."
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"I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow."

"Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It's time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love."

"Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context."

"You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket."

"As I suspect is true of many who write for a living, as I write I think about all sorts of things. I don't necessarily write down what I'm thinking; it's just that as I write I think about things. As I write, I arrange my thoughts. And rewriting and revising takes my thinking down even deeper paths."

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

"I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not . . . for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating."

"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."

"You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea."

"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked."
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"I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness."

"The best investors are visionaries-they look beyond the present. By the same token, vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good."

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, especially when it comes to bureaucrats in a government who has no clueabout money matters."

"Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow."

"I may not be the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick the smartest people to do business with and size them up very fast."

"Entrepreneurs are all unique. One way to build a business and turn it into a brand is to know who you are."
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