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"I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature."
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"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."
"Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating."
"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"
"Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius."
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"Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for."
"The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer."
"John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university."
"And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."
"One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons."
"For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant."
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