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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational -- but how much does it cost you to knock on...
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It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.Source: The...
Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of...
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. More about this quote
The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.Source: The Writer on Her...
Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I...
We romantic writers are there to make people feel and not think. A historical romance is the only kind of book where...
It was as though there was a film going on inside my head, and I was watching it as it went by. I was completely...
[C]hronological prestige is tenacious: once attained, it can't be shed; it increased moment by moment, day by day,...
If you can't do what you want, do what you can.Source: In Collection of 10,000...
But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for...
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. More about this quote
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much...
Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed...
Eternity -- waste of time.Source: Quoted in: Adam, Gods, no. 299 (London,...
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. More about this quote
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside...
An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to...
The stitch of a book is its words.Source: In Book-of-the-Month Club News, Sep...
Pax: peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and effort, seldom with a seen result. ....
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