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Denis Diderot

"My ideas are my whores."

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Donna Grant

"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."

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Donna Grant

"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."

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Donna Grant

"Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these - 'Chloe liked Olivia'. Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women."

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Donna Grant

"For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control. I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go."

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Donna Grant

"If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can."

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Donna Grant

"Then I realized the vital necessity of art. Human life, yes, you nurse people, you clean house, you market, but then comes the moment of solace and flight. i sit and write and summon other friends, other forms of life, other experiences, and the voyage and the exploration, the delving into character, the vast expanse of life's possibilities and potentialities, contemplation of future travels, of dazzling friendships, all this then makes the chores and the sacrifices beautiful because they are diverted toward some beautiful aim, they become part of the structure of a work of art."

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Donna Grant

"Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You're not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the forest."

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Donna Grant

"The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth."

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Donna Grant

"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."

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Donna Grant

"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"

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Denis Diderot
"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."

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Denis Diderot
"People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm."

Death

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Denis Diderot
"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."

Man

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Denis Diderot
"Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories."

Truth

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Denis Diderot
"Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild."

Poetry

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Denis Diderot
"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."

Virtue

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Denis Diderot
"Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory."

Truth

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Denis Diderot
"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth."

Man

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Denis Diderot
"My ideas are my whores."

Creativity

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Denis Diderot
"There is only one passion, the passion for happiness."

Happiness

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