I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

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The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat,...

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat,...

All children have creative power.

All children have creative power.

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and...

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and...

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they...

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they...

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to...

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to...

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to...

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to...

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody...

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody...

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God...

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God...

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or...

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or...

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much...

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much...