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"Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you."
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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book."
"They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much."
"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."
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