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Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

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Surprise is where creativity comes in.

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I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not ...more

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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves -- you c...more

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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.

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Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

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Hello!" He said hello and then said, "What are you up to now?" "I'm still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it. "I don't think I'd like th...more

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He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? Peopl...more

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We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

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And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.

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Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.