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My experience is, the writer I was when I began was only a fraction of what I feel capable of doing now. Don't stand on that threshold saying, 'I'm uncertain about my talent.' You can grow that part of yourself.

~Anthony Mccarten

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We're living in extraordinary times, all the time. The issues that assail us are perennial. They haven't changed since the Greeks picked up a pen.

~Anthony Mccarten

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The people I'm drawn to are sort of self-created. They came from backgrounds where not much was expected of them, necessarily.

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It turns out we are all quite easily swayed if someone knows what they are doing - which is a great thing and a dangerous thing.

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At some point early on, I realized that three of the greatest speeches ever delivered were by Winston Churchill, and they were written and delivered within a four-week period of each other.

~Anthony Mccarten

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If it's correct to say that there is a closing of minds around the world, story is one of the most powerful agents of reviving the conversation between ideas. Ultimately, that's all stories are trying to do - open the conversation. They cannot give a proscription. It's not clairvoyant art.

~Anthony Mccarten

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Biography

Nationality: New Zealander

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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