"Lord of the Rings, I think, is..." - Quote by Len Wein
Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.
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“People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.”
“Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.”
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.”
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“The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.”
“Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!”
“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.”
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“Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.”
“A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.”
“I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All these thoughts run around in my head, between my ears when I'm waking up. It's not a dream state, but it's not completely awake either. So all these metaphors run around and then I pick one and I get out of bed and I do it. I'm very lucky.”