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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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You can't test courage cautiously.Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 6,...
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.Source: In The Speaker's...
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear readers, are an after-thought. More about this quote
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to...
It is not easy to be a pioneer -- but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for...
What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element...
Art should simplify. That is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form...
Old folks are the nation.Source: -- Toni Cade Bambara, (Mar 25 1939-1995), US...
Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather...
Why couldn't she have two lives, or why couldn't she be satisfied in one place? More about this quote
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...
Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling...
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in...
Art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.Source:...
I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth,...
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.Source: In The Ultimate...
Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.Source: In Webster's...
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. More about this quote
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...
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