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FRANK's Components of Creativity
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in...
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. More about this quote...
I used to say: there is a God-shaped hole in me. For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is...
The real risks for any artist are taken. . . in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to...
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.Source: On the anger and death...
Our lives teach us who we are.Source: In Independent on Sunday (London), 4 Feb...
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious...
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop...
I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am...
I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.Source: Hamza, in The Satanic...
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I...
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.Source:...
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.Source: In...
The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyse the...
The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requires in order to exist -- is the privilege of...
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible,...
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes...
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language....
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to...
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the...
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