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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.Source: The Murder...
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I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily...
[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.Source:...
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter...
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for...
It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do...
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned,...
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes...
I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily. More about this quote
Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?Source: The Middle Ground,...
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future...
[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, Into how little space a human...
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.Source: In The Speaker's...
When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she...
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be...
In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or...
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to...
Real life seems to have no plot.Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...
I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because...
She could not separate success from peace of mind. The two must go together. More about this quote
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