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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Life, the permission to know death.Source: Nightwood/ 1937-- Djuna Barnes,...
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People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds,...
You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have...
God, the illogic! The impossibility of communication in this house. The sheer operation alone of getting something...
We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge,...
The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself . . . .They are satiated by...
The real thing creates its own poetry.Source: Red Ribbon on a White Horse,...
Writers should be read -- but neither seen nor heard.Source: In The Speaker's...
Artistic temperament . . . sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of...
A book comes and says, Write me. My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough,...
No matter how true I believe I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have...
When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a...
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.Source: letter to Mr....
There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money.Source: CBS -...
The best way to fill time is to waste it.Source: Practicalities, Wasting Time,...
Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden...
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness-either enforced or...
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can . . . weave it into a rope to hang a...
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading- It vexes me to choose another guide. More about this quote
Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than...
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