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John Updike

"Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better."

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"Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better."

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Amber Hurdle

"You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover."

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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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"Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way."

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"A creative mind is a spark of divinity."

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Amber Hurdle

"Flawed genius is better than flawless talent."

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"People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think."

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"I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life."

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"If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode."

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"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."
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"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."
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"There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam."
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"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
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"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."
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"Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings."
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"But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark."
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"A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens."
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"Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop, the gut expanded to take in more and more."
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"No act is so private it does not seek applause."
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