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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, ahistorical accidents, soon...
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Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.Source: AQuestion...
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten...
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. More about this quote...
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.Source: In The Speaker's...
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. More about this quote...
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.Source: Letter,...
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.Source:...
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I...
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be...
A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.Source: The Life I Really...
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to...
Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.Source: All I...
The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but...
A woman should be an illusion.Source: Life of Ian Fleming, by John Pearson.--...
My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at...
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great...
Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with...
There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for...
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult...
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