"Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best thing that could have happened because he just wouldn't settle for less. It had to be right, and it had to be good."

-- Dean Dillon

#Writing Quotes #Influence Quotes #Settling Quotes

“There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.”
“I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.”
“I start where the last man left off.”
“I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.”
“If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And that did not do me a bit of good. For I've absorbed so many words and phrasesâ€” They drive me dizzy when I want to speak. I start explaining but each person gazes As if I spoke in Latin or in Greek.”
“My mother, father and brothers (I was the youngest of three boys), were all very sarcastic and we were a complete Irish-Catholic family. We didn't talk about our feelings ever, and if we did, we were yelling about them - there was no in-between. That's just carried over so many ways in my life and sabotaged relationships, sabotaged creative stuff.”

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“Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.”
“Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence.”

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