The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
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