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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Art should simplify. That is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form...
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Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us [Americans] almost like a national disease. Our literature...
Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything...
II would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them -- without a...
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.Source: Not Under...
I suppose art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. More about this quote
Native always means people who belong somewhere else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the...
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.Source: Quoted by...
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. More about this quote
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.Source: Mary Crawford, in...
A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.Source: In...
From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema...
Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and...
Books have become products like cereal or perfume or deodorant.Source: In...
[The publishers] wanted some kind of book that lands on the best-seller list again and again. They didn't understand...
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.Source:...
It's a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid...
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,...
Breed is stronger than pasture.Source: -- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880),...
We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover...
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