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When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Everything you can imagine is real.

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it’s so hard to be read.

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this gr , universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

In ‘thinking up’ music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

To create something you must be something.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.