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The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, ...more

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I hate the assumption that you can't write about something because you haven't experienced it, and not just because it assumes a limit on the human im...more

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The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, ...more

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Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

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...so I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside it's like lodestones inside you and sooner or lat...more

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Quiet people have the loudest minds.

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If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

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When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

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Am I weird?""Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.

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... what I'm doing in here isn't all that different from what I was doing outside. I'll hand you a pretty cynical axiom: the amount of financial help ...more

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Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.

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A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

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People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.

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Bill suited the action to the word, getting up and leaning over the handlebars and pumping the pedals at a lunatic rate. Looking at Bill's back, which...more

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If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one–probably a child–who will imagine the stake n...more