"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up."

Creativity, Ideas, Mind

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"I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

Creativity, Writing, Faith, Grace, Audience

"Treasure your Ideas, for they are like seeds that germinate in your mind. They Root, Shoot, and Fruit into Concepts & Creativity that are beyond Imagination."

R.V.M., Indian Author

Creativity, Idea, Growth, Life

"Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals."

Jay Inslee, American Politician

Creativity, Ideas, Help, Hospitals, Problems

"Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It's time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love."

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

Creativity, Hope, Society, Love, Change

"Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Creativity, Writing, Life, Talent, Expression

"You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Creativity, Writing, Quality, Process

"As I suspect is true of many who write for a living, as I write I think about all sorts of things. I don't necessarily write down what I'm thinking; it's just that as I write I think about things. As I write, I arrange my thoughts. And rewriting and revising takes my thinking down even deeper paths."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Creativity, Writing, Thought, Reflection

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

Anais Nin, American Author

Creativity, Writer

"I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not . . . for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

Creativity, Music, Lose, Earth, Play

"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."

Alice Hoffman, American Author

Creativity, Patience, Process, Flow

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"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

Man, Men, Advice, Books

"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

Humility, Success, God, Discovery

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

Hope, Being

"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

Soul, Man, Worth

"I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late."

Society, Humor, Bureaucracy, Frustration, Observation

"A new untruth is better than an old truth."

Truth, Old

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"Treasure your Ideas, for they are like seeds that germinate in your mind. They Root, Shoot, and Fruit into Concepts & Creativity that are beyond Imagination."

"Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals."

"Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context."

"You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket."

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

"I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not . . . for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating."

"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."

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"Apology is only egotism wrong side out."

"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."

"Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man."

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

"I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late."

"A new untruth is better than an old truth."