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"I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years."
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"Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others."

"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."

"Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon."

"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

"Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart."

"Think innocently. Think intelligently. Think imaginatively. Think inventively."

"First drafts don't have to be perfect. They just have to be written."

"Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience."

"The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process."

"I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults."
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"In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India."

"The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness."

"I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost."

"Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others."

"That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do."

"As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are."
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