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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -- whether...
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To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I...
Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris. . . and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater...
I would not send a poor girl into the world, . . . ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and...
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
Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us [Americans] almost like a national disease. Our literature...
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...
It's a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid...
He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate. More about this quote
. . . what is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the...
I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the...
Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always...
The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.Source: In An...
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each...
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can . . . weave it into a rope to hang a...
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their...
I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't...
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