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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Reading and Writing
There is creative reading as well as creative writing. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: www.brainyquote.com Filed under: About Writing, Reading Tagged: creative reading, creative writing, creativity,...
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Sylvia Plath on the Importance of Avoiding Self-Doubt
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” ~ Sylvia Plath Source:...
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Jane Rule on Writing from the Heart
“Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that...
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Joseph Campbell on the Relationship between Dreams and Myth
“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.” ~ Joseph Campbell Source: BrainyQuote Filed under: Dreams, Myths, The Importance of Fantasy, The Writing Life Tagged: beauty, creativity, dreams,...
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Edgar Allan Poe on the Relationship Between Madness and Intelligence
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe Source: BrainyQuote Filed under: About Writers, Beginning Writers Take Heed, Insanity, The...
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Agatha Christie on Writing Plans
“The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.” ~ Agatha Christie Source: The Quotations Page: Agatha Christie Filed under: To Plot or Not to Plot, Writing Advice Tagged: creativity,...
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Isaac Asimov on the Importance of Improvization
“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.” ~ Isaac Asimov, Foundation Source: Fantasy & Science Fiction Quotations: Isaac Asimov Quotations Filed under: Beginning...
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Madeleine L’Engle on Writing What Wants to be Written
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” ~ Madeleine L’Engle (November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007)...
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Mark Twain on the Necessity of Avoiding People Who Belittle Your Ambitions
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” ~ Mark Twain, aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens...
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Rex Stout on the Relationship Between Genius and Getting There
“Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn’t leak and no tire is flat.” ~ Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975), The...
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Joseph Conrad on His Dislike of Work
“I don’t like work–no man does–but I like what is in the work–the chance to find yourself. Your own reality–for yourself not for others–what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show,...
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Joan Didion on the Impulse to Write
“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify...
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Ann Patchett on What Writing Is
“Writing is a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.” ~ Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963), Truth and Beauty...
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