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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Real life seems to have no plot.Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the...
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties,...
And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty,...
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to...
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.Source: In The...
I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.Source: In W.O.W....
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!Source: Interview, 30 Oct....
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind...
Every writer is a writer of the generation before.Source: On his parents; in NY...
Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to...
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a...
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.Source: Clea, in Clea, ch. 1, sct....
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.Source: Brother...
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody...
The Road to Gandolfo is one of those rare if insance accidents that can happen to a writer perhaps once or twice in...
Yes, oh dear, yes, the novel tells a story.Source: Aspects of the Novel,...
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and a thousand other things...
Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted....
Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.Source: Looking...
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