“Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not.”
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“For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation”
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“Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding to someone in the imaginary world.”
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“While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country
― The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country
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