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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside...
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Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else...
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps...
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. More about this quote
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound...
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but...
. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or...
We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's...
After you've written about something once, though, it's very dangerous to try and do it again. The original story was...
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the...
The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer...
Youth is a mortal woundSource: Jacob Have I Loved, 1980.-- Katherine Paterson,...
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. More about this quote
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a...
You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are...
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very...
The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were...
Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without practice, beg...
. . . people will sometimes say, Why don't you write more politics? And I have to explain to them that writing the...
America's technology has turned inward upon itself; its corporate form makes a servant of profit, not the servant of...
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