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"It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another."
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"Let's pursue the visage of imagination."

"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."

"If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain..."

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"

"Creativity is the residue of time wasted."

"It feels great to read but greater to write."

"For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse."

"Creativity is admired only if it solves the problem."

"In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day."
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"Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF."

"No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published."

"There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed."

"Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher."
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