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"I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it."
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"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."
"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
"If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!"
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"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"
"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."
"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."
"There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work."
"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."
"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."
"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."
"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."
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