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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City -- New York City is itself a detective...
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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.Source: Mary Crawford, in...
Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute. More about this quote
As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality,...
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints...
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of...
. . . time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee. . . . I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the...
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?Source: Selected Works of Djuna...
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...
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say, As it was in...
February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of...
. . . and many a good time we went back again, long afterward, and broke our rejected lump with great exultation to...
Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their...
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. [Nelly, in Wuthering Heights] More about this quote
All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into...
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not...
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. More about this quote
No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times...
I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted. More about this quote
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist...
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