Writing has nothing to do with publishing. Nothing. People get totally confused about that. You write because you … - Peter S. Beagle

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Nothing is born, nothing is destroyed. Away with you dualism, your likes and dislikes. Every single thing is just One Mind. When you have perceived this, you will have mounted the Chariot of the Buddhas.

Peter S. Beagle

Writing has nothing to do with publishing. Nothing. People get totally confused about that. You write because you have to - you write because you can't not write. The rest is show-business. I can't state that too strongly. Just write - worry about the rest of it later, if you worry at all. What matters is what happens to you while you're writing the story, the poem, the play. The rest is show-business.

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Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.

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You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.

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Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

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If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay.

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Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.

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