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- All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from…
- I think a 23-page ordinary comic is an investment for the artist, but if you're doing something 60 to 104 pages, that's a really big…
- The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more…
- It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is…
- Now for me, you're the irreplaceable one: I've never see you up so close before, and I do not understand you at all. You say…
- In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind…
- The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing. ...…
- I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, according to the 1950 census.…
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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