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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.Source: The...
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Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute. More about this quote
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's...
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -- whether...
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not...
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. More about this quote
As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality,...
'Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.Source: The Country of...
. . . as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny...
He was prouder still to be a member of that even more restricted group, Uncle Sam Rayburn's Board of Education the...
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.Source: Ellen Dean,...
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my...
Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with...
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth,...
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.Source: -- Agatha...
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City -- New York City is itself a detective...
There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great...
I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily...
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.Source: Aph, 1905.--...
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