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Edgar Degas

"In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false."

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Amber Hurdle

"No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!"

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"She looked at the empty page, which remained blank, apart from the small wet dots from her tears, for hours. Her mind was a turmoil of sadness, rage, fear and all those emotions that gave her inspiration. However her heart lacked the will as the empty words enclosed her soul pulling it down towards the frenzied ravenous imps that stalked hells pantry...."

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Amber Hurdle

"Creativity is like the ocean: sometimes it is an unstoppable wave bursting forth, crashing onto the shore, and overwhelmingly flowing with no hope of restraint; other times it is completely still, lingering aimlessly and endlessly, seemingly devoid of any inspiration."

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Amber Hurdle

"A good imitation is the most perfect originality."

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Amber Hurdle

"I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he sees me whip out a bird in one stroke. Pa's gonna be mad when he sees me do that. He don't like no fancy stuff like that. He don't even like word writin'. Kinda scare 'im, I guess. Ever' time Pa seen writin', somebody took somepin away from 'im."

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Amber Hurdle

"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']"

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Amber Hurdle

"Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate."

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Edgar Degas
"In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false."

Creativity

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Edgar Degas
"It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory."

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Edgar Degas
"What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming."

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Edgar Degas
"Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty."

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Edgar Degas
"No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters."

Art

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Edgar Degas
"Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it."

Art

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Edgar Degas
"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

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Edgar Degas
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

Art

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