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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

My head works in music, so there’s always music there.

You’re just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you’re just narrating it with music, letting it move along.

It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark… or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it’s the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.