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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for...
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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.Source: On Writing,...
Art should simplify. That is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form...
I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.Source: The Song of the Lark,...
The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she...
. . . as she moved from table to table, endeavoring to understand the [gambling] games, she realized that either her...
I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad...
Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?Source: The Middle Ground,...
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a...
The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will...
Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?Source:...
For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. . . . She is rather like a cat whose...
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in...
When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a...
All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into...
I am worn to a raveling.Source: The Tailor of Gloucester, 1901.-- Beatrix...
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.Source:...
When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it...
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.Source: The...
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