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"What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years."
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"Let's pursue the visage of imagination."

"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."

"If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain..."

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"

"Creativity is the residue of time wasted."

"It feels great to read but greater to write."

"For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse."

"Creativity is admired only if it solves the problem."

"In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day."
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"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."


"I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so."


"Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult."


"If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it."


"Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it."


"The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine."
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