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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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All my life I have lived and behaved very much like [the] sandpiper -- just running down the edges of different...
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Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is...
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort...
When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she...
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be...
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -- whether...
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to...
I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't...
His entire life was becoming a race against the natural -- and he was winning. More about this quote
There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great...
Doorbells are like a magic game,Or the grab-bag at a fair --You never know when you hear one ringWho may...
It takes two flints to make a fire.Source: Little Women, 1868.-- Louisa May...
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of that...
The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for...
I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.Source: The Song of the Lark,...
But the trouble is not as you think now, that we have put up obstacles too high for you to jump . . . . It is that we...
It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't...
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to...
The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with...
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only,...
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