"Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company."

Creativity, Solitude, Reflection, Writing

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"No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Creativity, Wisdom, Happiness, Inspirational, Power

"You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Creativity, Detail, Accuracy, Imagination, Storytelling

"I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Creativity, Writing, Style, Innovation

"What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ['Give me more images']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

Creativity, Imagery, Addiction, Escape, Life

"Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. Writing is a jealous and needy lover."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Creativity, Writing, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"Some people have a handful of ideas, but not enough time to realize them."

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

Creativity, Idea, Time, Regret, Impatience

"I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Creativity, Desire, Art, Museums, Imagination

"Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Creativity, Passion, Reading, Writing

"Like" and "like" and "like"-but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?"

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Creativity, Creation, Identity, Art, Work

"As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Creativity, Writing, Waiting, Art

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"It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time."

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"The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity."

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"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

Life

"In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy."

Virtue

"Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers."

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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."

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"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."

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"No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!"

"You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story."

"I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it."

"What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ['Give me more images']"

"Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. Writing is a jealous and needy lover."

"Some people have a handful of ideas, but not enough time to realize them."

"I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh."

"Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet."

"Like" and "like" and "like"-but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?"

"As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall."

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"There is no instinct like that of the heart."

"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad."

"Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger."

"It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time."

"The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity."

"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

"In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy."

"Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers."

"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."

"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."