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"That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all."
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"With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs."
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Personal Development
"I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today."
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Personal Development
"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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Personal Development
"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."
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"It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period."
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"To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending."
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"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."
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"What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted."
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"I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done."
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"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
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"I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship."
Censorship
"If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror."
Famous
"I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread."
Writing
"I am a writer of fragments."
Writing
"I am against the notion of style in itself."
Style
"That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all."
Beginning
"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."
Mind
"There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio."
Life
"I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me."
Creativity
"What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other."
Reading
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