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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.Source:...
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Great men have to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas, or perform...
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new...
You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have...
Life comes before literature, as the material comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world...
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal...
Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and...
Art must take reality by surprise.Source: Writers at Work-- Francoise Sagan,...
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. ...
In fact, one thing that I have noticed. . . is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being...
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the...
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool...
Angels rush in when fools are almost dead.Source: Blades of Steel, 1927.--...
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. More about this quote...
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call...
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the...
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.Source: La Chamade,...
There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a...
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a...
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative...
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