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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.Source:...
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It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have...
Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.Source: Patterns of Culture,...
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.Source: Dubious Honors,...
Their capacity for identification is not an expression of inner poverty but of inner...
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement...
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...
Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.Source: Kiss Hollywood...
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will...
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being...
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back...
The Imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find...
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to...
I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be...
Remarks are not literature.Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...
I want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.Source:...
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
It amazes me that most people spend more time planning next summer's vacation than they do planning the rest of their...
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.Source: On modern photojournalism; in...
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