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"The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal."
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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."

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

"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."

"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."

"Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it."

"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 belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more."

"I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this."

"The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going."

"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul."

"I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise."

"I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am."

"I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up."

"To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable."
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