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I have often been asked where the inspiration for my books comes from. I wouldn’t know how to answer. On the journey of life, I accumulate experiences that get imprinted in the deepest layers of memory, and there they ferment, transform, and sometimes emerge on the surface as strange plants from other worlds. — Isabel Allende The sum of the...

The time travelers are usually adept at intercrossing different fields of expertise. That's the beauty of the hobbyist: it's generally easier to mix different intellectual fields when you have a whole array of them littering your study or your garage. — Steven Johnson How We Got to...

Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details. — Daniel C. Dennett Freedom Evolves

What if the places you went and the things you encountered in your work were more interesting than what was available in the physical world around you? — Neal Stephenson Anathem

Writing a novel—actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs—is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV's so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it's damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit. — Steve Hely How I Became a...

He looked at the granite. To be cut, he thought, and made into walls. He looked at a tree. To be split and made into rafters. He looked at a streak of rust on the stone and thought of iron ore under the ground. To be melted and to emerge as girders against the sky. These rocks, he thought, are waiting for me; waiting for the drill, the dynamite and my voice; waiting to be split, ripped, pounded, reborn; waiting for the shape my hands will give them. — Ayn Rand The Fountainhead

It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path. — Sean Patrick Nikola Tesla:...

If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done. — Tom Robbins Still Life with...

It was a strange creative experience that deserves to be explained, even just because we know from now on how insatiable and corrosive the habit of writing is for children who want to become writers when they grow up. — Gabriel García Márquez Strange Pilgrims

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as do the ordinary people, but to fulfill it in its...

I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or be read to.

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where...

There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:'You should start where you are

His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's making dream material visible.

. . . in every created thing, whether it is alive or whether is what we usually call inanimate, there is an attempt to communicate, even among the totally silent. There is a question being asked, a...

Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere, how to keep on working until the work is done. Woody...

Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made {the record}, but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame it...

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What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

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