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The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.
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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
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I read a fan bulletin board once, and somebody said I had a face like a potato, so I never went back on there.
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All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
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I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.
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The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.
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In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball ... Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms ... the game of ball is glorious.
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I know I'm not an anti-Semitic person.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.
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If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
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It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I'd been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining.
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If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else.
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The majority of the world is empty space. Empty space, empty space, empty space. All that we see in the world, the life, the animals, plants, people - it's all empty space. That's amazing!
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For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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God made solids, but surfaces were the work of the devil.
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You gotta play every game like your last.
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I actually applied at Hanna-Barbera to work on 'The Smurfs' when I got laid off for a brief period of time from Disney. I didn't get the job. That was my first introduction to Smurfs.
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Do you tend to sleep in during the weekends? That usually signals that you're trying to sleep off a debt you've accumulated during the week.
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Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
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The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.
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My intention is to make music that you can enjoy at all times.
