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"Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel."
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"Whom the society deems worthless, once they discover their special inclination, it will change the very course of their lives as well as the shape of the very society that distastes them."
"There is a natural magic in the feeling of love that has been nourished by Mother Nature through millions of years. It can make you reach the zenith of your true potential. It can awaken your mind towards your deepest powers, and make you endowed with tools of greatness that you can never access in an ordinary state of mind."
"Seeds are proof that the greatest growth takes place in the dark."
"You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you are in desperate need."
"The world sees you for what you are, but the universe sees you for what you can be."
"Do according to your capability.Act according to your capacity.Go according to your curiosity.Be according to your possibility."
"If I am so terribly limited as to view my handicaps as nothing more than lamentable limitations, then I have taken some of my greatest God-given assets and completely handicapped them."
"The world needs something from you, my friend. It needs the heart that is deep as the ocean and infinite as the outer-space. Can you provide that my friend! Can you make your will so large and your conscience so sharp that in front of which, a thousand Everests and a thousand Kilimanjaros would bow!"
"If seeds saw dirt as their enemy, they would lose out on the opportunity to grow."
"A star is a rock that could no longer hide its light from the world."
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"Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female."
"So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research."
"I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland."
"A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write."
"I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories."
"The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place."
"Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings."
"I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel."
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