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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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There are many little ways to enlarge [your child's] world. Love of books is the best of...
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Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.Source:...
I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and...
One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.Source: In The...
For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery...
I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and...
The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.Source: In The Ultimate...
. . . time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee. . . . I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the...
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands- and then eat just one of the...
Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect...
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. . . . You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience...
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.Source:...
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...
But the trouble is not as you think now, that we have put up obstacles too high for you to jump . . . . It is that we...
(My bounded brain was as) unalterable as a ball.Source: In ...As One Mad With...
Writing, like dreams, confronts, pushes you up against the evasions, self-deceptions, investments in opinions and...
. . . and many a good time we went back again, long afterward, and broke our rejected lump with great exultation to...
For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. . . . She is rather like a cat whose...
It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home it's only then...
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the...
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