"Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start."

Creativity, Writing, Inspirational, Engagement

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"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

"Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."

William James, American Philosopher

Creativity, Genius, Way, Insight, Perception

"When ideas evaporate, when shapes fade and forms lose their integrity, our imagination can create an outlandish setting and convert everything into a hazy, misty Turner landscape. ['Back garden of a dream']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

Creativity, Imagination, Dream, Art

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"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."

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"It is your business when the wall next door catches fire."

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"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."

"Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."

"When ideas evaporate, when shapes fade and forms lose their integrity, our imagination can create an outlandish setting and convert everything into a hazy, misty Turner landscape. ['Back garden of a dream']"

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"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."

"Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself."

"Leave the rest to the gods."

"If matters go badly now, they will not always be so."

"Fidelity is the sister of justice."

"Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers."

"Every old poem is sacred."

"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."

"It is your business when the wall next door catches fire."

"We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others."