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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes...
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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the...
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. More about this quote
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. More about this quote
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City -- New York City is itself a detective...
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each...
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.Source: --...
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.Source: Mary Crawford, in...
A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.Source: Daniel...
You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't...
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...
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and...
Life is painful, nasty and short . . . in my case it has only been painful and nasty. More about this quote
Art should simplify. That is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form...
You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have...
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but...
[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:...
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