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I think that's always been part of the thinking behind the script, that - and I really tried really hard to impress that upon the staff of the show, the animation staff - to try to get them to understand that we would only be able to get away with what we were writing if the visuals were appealing enough that it was like a balance, and even people who didn't like what they were hearing would still not want to turn away because what they were seeing was so nice. So that was kind of my hunch, and I think it worked.

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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

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A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

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Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy.

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The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

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I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

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I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

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Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

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I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

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I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

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I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

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I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.

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