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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate. More about this quote
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Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a...
There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without...
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field,...
We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest --blank; and the...
You can't test courage cautiously.Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 6,...
The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it...
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear readers, are an after-thought. More about this quote
When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she...
'Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.Source: The Country of...
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I...
All my possessions for a moment of time.Source: Alleged last words.--...
All things are possible until they are proved impossible -- and even the impossible may only be so, as of...
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I...
It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.Source: The Murder...
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. More about this quote
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.Source: Dubious Honors,...
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes...
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands- and then eat just one of the...
The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for...
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