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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to...
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.Source: In The Ultimate...
Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by...
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness-either enforced or...
Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.Source: The Mixed-Up Files...
Real life seems to have no plot.Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...
We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge,...
[The publishers] wanted some kind of book that lands on the best-seller list again and again. They didn't understand...
Writers should be read -- but neither seen nor heard.Source: In The Speaker's...
Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, a moment ago things were not like this, let it be then, not...
It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. More about this quote
Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of...
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in...
I didn't mean to give you the impression that life at the cathedral is like Barchester Towers, as written by...
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we...
The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second...
Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris. . . and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater...
I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always...
I didn't really choose to be a writer; I more or less fell into it.Source: A...
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I...
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