"I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church."

Creativity, Idea, Church, Afterlife, Contempt

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"I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church."

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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

"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

"Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source."

Willy Ley, German Writer

Creativity, Ideas, Rivers

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"They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I."

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"Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow."

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"I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in."

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"I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable."

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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."

"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."

"Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source."

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"And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural."

"The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher."

"I'm more interested in writing than in performing."

"The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice."

"There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd."

"I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so."

"They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I."

"Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow."

"I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in."

"I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable."