Theophile Gautier on Writers as Artists

“Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.”

~ Theophile Gautier

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Rex Stout on the Relationship Between Genius and Getting There

“Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn’t leak and no tire is flat.”

~ Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975), The Doorbell Rang

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Anais Nin on the Importance of Dreams

“Dreams are necessary to life.”

~ Anais Nin

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Anais Nin on How We See Things

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

~ Anais Nin

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Douglas Adams on What Things Really Are

“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands.”

~ Douglas Adams

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J.K. Rowling on Integrity

“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

~ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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Matthew Arnold on the Secret of Writing

“Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.”

~ Matthew Arnold

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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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Maya Angelou on Untold Stories

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

~ Maya Angelou

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Douglas Adams on the Ineffable

“Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”

~ Douglas Adams

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