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• I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape.

  Richard Scarry

  Book, Scotch, People

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• There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Song, Writing

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• The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Creative

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• Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Ideas, People, Looks

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.171, Penguin

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• If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating a complete landscape that I treasure. The green foliage of the trees casts a pleasant shade over the earth, and the wind rustles the leaves, which are sometimes dyed a brilliant gold. Meanwhile, in the garden, buds appear on the flowers, and colorful petals attract bees and butterflies, reminding us of the subtle transition from one season to the next.

  Haruki Murakami

  Flower, Butterfly, Writing

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• It Wasn't Hard To Follow The Scent Of Blood To The Living Room Where The Fae Had Been Killed. It Had Been A Violent Death, Perfect For Creating Ghosts.

  Patricia Briggs

  Blood, Perfect, Fae

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.663, Penguin

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• You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Writing, Creating Something

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• In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way the author takes control of reality by retelling it in his own way, thus creating a new world. Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. The perfection and beauty of form rebels against the ugliness and shabbiness of the subject matter.

  Azar Nafisi

  Art, Betrayal, Lying

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• I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Upset

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• When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.

  Anne Rice

  Real, Fall, Mean

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• Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.

  Lewis Hyde

  Art, Memories, Inspiration

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• The first step to change,... is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you would with a child. Be gentle but firm. Give yourself the space to grow. But remember that the timing is in god's hands, not yours. page~147

  Dan Millman

  Children, Reality, Space

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• If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Morning, Too Late

  Deepak Chopra (2001). “Perfect health: the complete mind body guide”, Harmony

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• It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of meaninglessness.

  Janet Fitch

  Skins, Monsters, Pages

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Jobs, Reality, Poetry

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• It made Fire so angry, the thought of such a medicine, a violence done to herself to stop her from creating anything like herself. And what was the purpose of these eyes, this impossible face, the softness and the curves of this body, the strength of this mind; what was the point, if none of the men who desired her were to give her any babies, and all it ever brought her was grief? What was the purpose of a woman monster?

  Kristin Cashore

  Baby, Grief, Eye

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.138, Penguin

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• You have to be grateful to existence that it has chosen you to be a passage for a few beautiful children. But you are not to interfere in their growth, in their potential. You are not to impose yourself upon them. They are not going to live in the same times, they are not going to face the same problems. They will be part of another world. Don´t prepare them for this world, this society, this time, because then you will be creating troubles for them. They will find themselves unfit, unqualified.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Children, Grateful

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• Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Broken, World, Findings

  "BOOKMARK: Terry Tempest Williams on the perspective of nature and healing". Interview with Laurie Hertzel, www.startribune.com. June 30, 2017.

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• they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked trees which promised cooling; they flung themselves into the shade to taste their lip sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly

  Toni Morrison

  Squares, Sweat, Tree

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Sula”, p.57, Random House

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• I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.

  Lady Gaga

  Music, Girl, Work

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• Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought—making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share—it smashed to atoms.

  Virginia Woolf

  Girl, Fun, Atoms

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.161, Wordsworth Editions

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• People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.

  James A. Baldwin

  Roots, Water, People

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• My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them.

  Lady Gaga

  Destiny, Energy, Fans

  "Lady Gaga wants next album to be her 'iconic moment'". www.mtv.com. June 01, 2010.

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• Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.

  Stanislav Grof

  Reality, Play, Doe

  Stanislav Grof, Hal Zina Bennett (2009). “The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one another. Wisdom without science is unable to penetrate the full sapiential meaning of the created and the material cosmos. Science without wisdom leaves man enslaved to a world of unrelated objects in which there is no way of discovering (or creating) order and deep significance in man's own pointless existence. (p. 4)

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Men, Order

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