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"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun."
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"Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others."


"For a poet reality is mysterious, imaginations are magical, and perceptions are magnificent."


"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."


"If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?"


"I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket."


"My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me."


"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."


"Things you crave for won't come if you cry, but when you craft and create. Creativity digs up the buried gold."


"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."


"Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon."
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"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."

"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."

"The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality."

"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."

"If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves."

"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

"In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going."
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