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"I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing."
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"Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others."
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"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."
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"Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon."
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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
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"Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart."
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"Think innocently. Think intelligently. Think imaginatively. Think inventively."
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"First drafts don't have to be perfect. They just have to be written."
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"Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience."
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"The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process."
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"I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults."
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"But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons."
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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
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"As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?"
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"But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics."
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"But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels."
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"I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood."
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"Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do."
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"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."
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"As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic."
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