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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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II would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them -- without a...
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.Source: Not Under...
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with...
Fiction is [a form of writing which] reveals truths that reality obscures.Source:...
Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We...
One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning...
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with...
I am worn to a raveling.Source: The Tailor of Gloucester, 1901.-- Beatrix...
Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden...
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.Source: The House in Paris,...
I suppose art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. More about this quote
I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and...
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise...
We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now...
[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.Source:...
It is the ability to choose which makes us human.Source: Walking on Water:...
It takes two flints to make a fire.Source: Little Women, 1868.-- Louisa May...
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death --...
My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To...
The best way to fill time is to waste it.Source: Practicalities, Wasting Time,...
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