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“Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.”
“Because of the earths roundness, Genghis Khan, in the fever of possession and destruction, hastened his own overthrow by invading lands that he had already razed and conquered. Not only is it impos...”
“If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly le...”
“I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.”
“If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the prob...”
“I do not derive out of the evolution, but the act of creativity inside of it!”
“It is the most fun Im ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, theres nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because Im so very bad at it. Its the greate...”
“Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own pursuits to give ourselves the time we desperately need to be trans...”
“Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.”
“Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and youll find out how big a prize youve won.”
“Even for women without children, trading hours that produce income for hours that produce only art seems like a foolish decision. What a loss for the world, though, to have women's voices silenced ...”
“Creative thinking begins by embracing your naivet and rejecting the obvious in favor of the unusual, the extraordinary, the evocative and or the new.”
“If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.”
“To wonder is to recreate a sacred self.”
“To live is to wonder.”
“Like taking a breath, learning was the simple and extraordinary result of being alive.”
“You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.”
“If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.”
“I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it is our privilege as humans to keep making things. Most of all, I keep working because I trust that...”
“A definition of a term indicates its original meaning from the language the person reads, writes and speaks in daily life settings. However, an intellectual persons interpretation and perspective c...”
