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A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.
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You don't achieve greatness in life being surrounded by mediocre people with mediocre values. Choose your company wisely.
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Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.
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I've always found that the best things I've ever written, or the things I like the most that I've written, are things where it's a pure idea, and you just follow it and put it down and see if it works.
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Managing the creative process means selecting the best people and then letting them do their work. That means nurturing. It also means, from time to time, creating drama - even uncertainty - so that the creative environment has an edge to it, a charge, and does not run out of steam.
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Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
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Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.
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If homosexuality were normal, God would have created Adam and Bruce.
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Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.
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God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.
