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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."

"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked."

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."

"The first time I saw a mermaid in my dream, and she looked so real...THAT.'s fishy!!"

"Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh"

"What doesn't kill me provides writing material."

"Let's pursue the visage of imagination."

"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."
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"I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty."

"So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine."

"Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect."

"I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary."

"I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc."
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