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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were...
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Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature --and another woman...
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same...
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right...
[We look like] a road company of the Last Supper.Source: On lunching with James...
The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.Source: Quoted in: Mary...
When the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper . . . every other dancer in the company was equally...
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God...
Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start...
Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us...
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the...
Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the...
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and...
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to...
To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.Source: In Webster's...
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very...
When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial...
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The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if...
After you've written about something once, though, it's very dangerous to try and do it again. The original story was...
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