The artist lies. For the improvement of truth. Believe him.

Charles Tomlinson

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No one sees the world as you do, so no one else can tell the stories you can tell.

Charles de Lint

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Our doubts are traitors,

and make us lose the good we oft might win,

by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

(from Measure for Measure)

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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser

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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

P.D. James

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._James

You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.

Charlie Chaplin

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Picasso

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly can write clearly, about anything at all.

William Zinsser

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The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective’s personal life, the circumstances of the crime, and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.

Elizabeth George

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When you turn a corner

And you run into yourself

Then you know that you have turned

All the corners that are left

Langston Hughes

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