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"I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he sees me whip out a bird in one stroke. Pa's gonna be mad when he sees me do that. He don't like no fancy stuff like that. He don't even like word writin'. Kinda scare 'im, I guess. Ever' time Pa seen writin', somebody took somepin away from 'im."
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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."

"Imagination is a glorious wonder."

"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."

"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."

"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."

"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."

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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."

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"I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool."

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"Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that."
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