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"That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you."
~ Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it." __Roald Dahl
🎨 Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith
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"No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind." __Selma Lagerlöf
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"There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket." __Samuel Beckett
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From Dostoevsky's Netochka Nezvanova. The novel talks about a child controlled by her stepfather who thinks he is a neglected genius. The novel was unfinished due to Dostoevsky's arrest in 1849. He never resumed on his work after he was released.
🎨 Ilya Glazunov
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"A writer is a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life." __James Joyce
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Raised as an only child, Andersen saw in the "The Wild Swans" a fantasy of sibling solidarity that he could not realize in real life. The story was published in his Danish Folktales of 1823.
🎨 Anne yvonne Gilbert
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In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. __Anton Chekhov
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"Literature is a picture, or rather in a certain sense both a picture and a mirror; it is an expression of emotion, a subtle form of criticism, a didactic lesson and a document." __Foydor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk (1846)
🎨 Natasha Mylius
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"A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly." __Elizabeth Gaskell
🎨 John Lavery
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