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“The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.”

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The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of…

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The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.

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No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.

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Emily was feeling the elation of conscientious hosts when they can temporarily escape a ubiquitous houseguest.

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For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually…

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An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.

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There isn't a thought or feeling that doesn't alter or deepen when written. We are a writing animal. That is why all of us…

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Unlike lions and dogs, we are a dissenting animal. We need to dissent in the same way that we need to travel, to make…

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Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences…

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The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning. The mind…

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I don't engage in self-censorship. But I do change everybody to have red hair in the last draft. ... If you give people red…

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“It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.”

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The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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You don't get lucky. You create lucky.

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By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological…

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“You are the end of beauty and creativity one must have created so far.”

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Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of…

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If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to.

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“I believe in magic. As a writer, I create them on blank paper.”

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Creativity is like chasing chickens.

Christoph Niemann

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