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"I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge."
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"One who takes the road less traveled earns the rewards most missed."

"The more difficult a problem is, the more discoveries you make in the process of resolving it."

"When you become a transformer, you become faced with the challenge of skepticism."

"You stand the risk of a down turn, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."

"Impossible things are really rough to do, you know."

"Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow."

"We are the mountains we must cross."
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"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise."

"When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water."

"Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?"

"A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers."

"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."

"Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else."
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