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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

I don’t owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can’t do anything anyway.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.

If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.