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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.Source: The Writer on Her...
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The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an...
I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because...
But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power -- they fear even the slightest and least likely threat...
And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty,...
I'll keep going till my face falls off.Source: The Observer, 'Sayings of the...
If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert...
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination...
Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.Source: Middlemarch, bk. 1, ch. 10,...
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.Source: In The Ultimate...
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived...
And so Multi-media Man, the contemporary successor to Renaissance Man . . .Source:...
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and...
The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if...
My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.Source: The Young Visiters,...
Art must take reality by surprise.Source: Writers at Work-- Francoise Sagan,...
It was . . . enough to suffer as a woman, an individual, on one's own account, without having to suffer for the race...
Health has its science as well as disease. . .Source: Written with her sister...
Psychologically, having it all is not a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are...
Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always...
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