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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer...
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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...
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. More about this quote
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad. . . and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than...
Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough,...
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and...
Remarks are not literature.Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really frightening.Source: In...
What is the answer? [Silence] In that case, what is the question?Source: Her...
There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great...
I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily...
I startled a weasel who startled me, and we exchanged a long glance. . . . Our eyes locked, and someone threw away the...
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the...
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...
Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?Source: The Middle Ground,...
The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will...
Life is not a dress rehearsal.Source: In the Sunday Correspondent (London), 24 Dec...
Gardening is not a rational act.Source: Bluebeard's Egg/ 1986-- Margaret...
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.Source: We...
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are...
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