"I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it."

Creativity, Learning, Writing, Art, Passion

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"I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it."

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"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Her words dance on the page."

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"Fallen leaves on the ground are the golden song of immortal creativity."

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"One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's all up; you may as well throw it away and begin afresh."

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

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"Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination."

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"The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

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"Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too."

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"Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act."

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"When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get."

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"It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister."

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"Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks."

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"Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean."

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"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."

"Her words dance on the page."

"Fallen leaves on the ground are the golden song of immortal creativity."

"My pond life with hydra is over, now I'm into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper.."

"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."

"One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's all up; you may as well throw it away and begin afresh."

"Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other."

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

"Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination."

"The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind."

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"Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too."

"Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act."

"When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get."

"It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister."

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