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Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.
John Irving
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I'm self-loathing, introverted, and neurotic.


Megan Fox
John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style.
Madison Smartt Bell
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I am introverted and a complete klutz.


Amy Gerstler
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Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
John le Carre
The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldn't.
Colum McCann
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As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.


Om Puri
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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.


John Lennon
I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.
Jennifer Sky
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For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.
John Banville
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I'm a super-introverted person.


Grimes
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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.


John Keats
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You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.


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Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.


Mike Birbiglia
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Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.
Craig Charles
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The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about it was that I truly belonged there.
Steve-O
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.


Patrick Kavanagh
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I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.


Seamus Heaney
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I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.


Lena Dunham
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I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.


Jacqueline Susann
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