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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement...
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That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that...
Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with...
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,...
The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer...
There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great...
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. More about this quote
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter...
People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.Source: In...
What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to...
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for...
A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.Source: In...
What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element...
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen. More about this quote
Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce...
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. More about this quote
Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?Source: The Middle Ground,...
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future...
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes...
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on...
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