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"I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed."
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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."
"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."
"If I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you really begin to learn something about a thing not to want to write about it but rather to keep on learning about it always and at no time, unless you are very egotistical, which, of course, accounts for many books, will you be able to say: now I know all about this and will write about it."
"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."
"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."
"Imagination is a glorious wonder."
"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
"Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it."
"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."
"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."
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"All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary."
"I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results."
"As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up."
"Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity."
"Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes."
"I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism."
"I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances."
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