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Writers on Writing

Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven. — Philipus A Paracelsus

Don´t ask what the world needs. Rather ask – what makes you come alive? Then go and do it! Because what the world needs is people who have come alive — Howard Thurman

True creativity often starts where language ends. — Arthur Koestler

Daydreams are fertile ground for the imagination. While daydreaming rational thought goes out the window, so new perspectives can find their way in. — Linda Naiman

Throwing away ideas too soon is like opening a package of flower seeds and then throwing them away because they’re not pretty. — Arthur VanGundy

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands. — Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The winds of grace are always blowing, but it is you who must raise your sails. - Rabindranath Tagore

Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the
fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill. - Edmund Morrison

What I like in a good author isn’t what he says, but what he whispers. - Logan Pearsall Smith

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