Joseph Campbell on the Relationship between Dreams and Myth

“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”

~ Joseph Campbell

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Helen Keller on That Which Cannot be Seen or Touched

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”

~ Helen Keller

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Jane Rule on Writing from the Heart

“Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.”

~ Jane Rule

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Isaac Asimov on the Necessity of Writing

“I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.”

~ Isaac Asimov

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Tim Powers on When He First Realized He Had What it Takes to be a Writer

“I guess it was when an editor bought my first book! Before that I was just hopeful.”

~ Tim Powers

Source: Tim Powers Interview | Better Storytelling: Write Better Stories!

Robert Frost on the Story of His Life

“And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.”

~ Robert Frost

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Jane Austen on People Who Don’t Like to Read

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

~ Jane Austen

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Edgar Allan Poe on Reality

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
~ Edgar Allan Poe

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Charles Baudelaire on the Nature of Artists

“An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.”

~ Charles Baudelaire

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Ray Bradbury on Failure

“You fail only if you stop writing.”

~Ray Bradbury

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