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"Creativity is when a stupid clever soul gets up from bed and does amazing things that makes the world think he is wise."
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"For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose."
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
"At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air."
"I have spent a good many years since-too many, I think-being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all."
"He kept seeing the brains dribbling down the wallpaper. It wasn't the killing that stayed on his mind, it was the spilled talent. A lifetime of honing and shaping torn apart in less than a second. All those stories, all those images, and what came out looked like so much oatmeal. What was the point?"
"When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain."
"Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas."
"We write to shed our sorrows and give strength to our spirit."
"My pen beats faster as I write with my heart."
"But without a reader, a story is only half complete. It's like blueprints that never get built; like a swimming pool without water. The foundation's there, but it's useless. Without a reader, the words just sit on the page, waiting to come alive in someone's imagination."
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"You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons."
"There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former."
"Don't let people supervise your life, If you know who you are, you shouldn't be living in that prison of dominance, live by your orders, you are your own soldier."
"Before you speak... I have already heard. Before you see... I had seen a million times. Before you reach... I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul."
"Even if you love a lady, don't say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs."
"The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books."
"Break free from the binding robes of passion that feels like a lump in your heart, perform that surgery today, and you'll be set free forever."
"The only difference between you and the star is that you shine below, and the other shines above: Wherever you are located, You are a star!"
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