The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.

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"The line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn't matter if it's been through the Xerox machine a hundred times."

- Donna Tart

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"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

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"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

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