Read moreCreativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
Read moreParadise is separated from hell only by an imaginary line, so it is said.
Henry Miller
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Read moreIt’s not the easiest thing to try and put a smile on a face. But it’s always worth it.
Jerry Seinfeld
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Read moreIn his highest flights, musical and architectural above all, for they are one, man gives the illusion of rivaling the order, the majesty and the splendor of the heavens.
Henry Miller
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Read moreHow to write a good short story:
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
- Start as close to the end as possible.
- Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them-in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
- Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
- Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
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Read moreAbsorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.
Bruce Lee
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Read moreThe cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau
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Read moreIt was as undesigned as possible.
Michael Bierut
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Read moreGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
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