"My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation."

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Source : "New wonder kid on the block" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.

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“Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]”
“The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.”
“This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get another rejection letter. Every successful writer has gone through that, but they kept writing and didn't quit until they made it happen.”
“The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships. . . it seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary and even if the machine could get across with one or two passengers the expense would be prohibitive to any but the capitalist who could use his own yacht.”
“I dont want to be labeled one thing. My main thing I care about is being able to create the things I want to do with my friends, whatever platform that is.”
“Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.”
“I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.”
“I think itâ€™s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that weâ€™re unique geniuses, and the constant fear that weâ€™re witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure.”

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