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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

"Be an artist in everything you do."

"The writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear.The Wine of Forever."

"In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up."

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
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"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."


"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."


"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."


"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."


"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."
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