“Each play was, for me, 'a different kind of failure.' And that fact, I suppose, sent me on to write the next one.”
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Writing for the Theatre (1962)
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If He is satisfied and happy, I feel blessed.
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia in Hinduism Today

1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)

2000
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On himself

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not.”
As quoted at The Cult of Genius http://archive.is/20130407013238/thecultofgenius.tumblr.com/post/11315919381/they-want-me-to-write-differently-certainly-i
Context: They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me, of all people, this talent. It is to Him that I must give account. How then would I stand there before Almighty God, if I followed the others and not Him?

1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Poet
Context: is it not a right glorious thing, and set of things, this that Shakspeare has brought us? For myself, I feel that there is actually a kind of sacredness in the fact of such a man being sent into this Earth.

“Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.”
As quoted at ContemporaryWriters.com http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth03D25I553012635618