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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I...
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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City -- New York City is itself a detective...
There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great...
Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up...
I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily...
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination...
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other. More about this quote
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands- and then eat just one of the...
A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.Source: In...
Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect...
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?Source: Selected Works of Djuna...
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are...
Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.Source: The...
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. More about this quote
Writing, like dreams, confronts, pushes you up against the evasions, self-deceptions, investments in opinions and...
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.Source: On the Contrary, pt. 1,...
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,...
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.Source: On The Group,, her 1963...
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow...
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