"Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened."

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Source : Wallace Stegner (2002). “On Teaching and Writing Fiction”, p.46, Penguin

Wallace Stegner

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“I think acting is a gift. I think certain people for some reason just have a gift that they were meant to perform.”

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“I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.”
“A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.”
“Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.”

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“God gave us reason. He gave us the ability to reason and also have faith and I think that reason and faith go together. I don't think that they're opposed. I think we've reached the point where we need to look at modern superstitions and hold them up to the light of reason and accountability.”

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“In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.”
“The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.”
“Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or in front of an audience. I used to think you had to disappear within a character, but I find that puts a mask on what I do.”

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