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"When you can inspire a muse, you've got it going on."
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"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."
"No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist."
"But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires."
"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."
"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."
"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."
"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."
"Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it."
"Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach."
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"If you could see your whole life laid out before you, there'd be no reason to live it, right?"
"She covered his hand with hers over her abdomen. His was so much bigger than hers and had probably fired guns, rifles, and god knew what else, but right here, right now, his tenderness broke down her will as sure as any grenade."
"No room in my world for drama, and the last thing I needed was more death. This beautiful woman would bring me both."
"She tasted like run, root beer, and something wild he couldn't place, but it didn't matter. He wanted more. Craved it."
"The nine Greek Muses, awakened again for this generation of man and meant to inspire mankind forward in the sciences and the arts."
"Trying to second-guess Tegan was like trying to track a tornado. A tornado he had no business chasing."
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