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"An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself."
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"A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents."
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"As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing."
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"I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing."
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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
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"Your gift is what you were created to be."
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"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."
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"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"
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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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"Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre."
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"When you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will get guaranteed success."
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"I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober."
Creativity
"Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody."
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"I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal."
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"In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices."
Talk
"If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship."
Time
"At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded."
Being
"Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House."
Man
"In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75."
Literature
"I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?"
Literature
"A writer has to live with a sense of honor."
Honor
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