"The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfictionâ€”that is, factually accurate prose about real people and eventsâ€”in a compelling, vivid manner. To put it another way, creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and, often, more accessible."

-- Lee Gutkind

#Real Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“There is nothing wrong with God's creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.”
“I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.”
“Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.”
“The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up - it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together.”
“Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development.”
“What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?”
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
“We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.”

Source : Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.145, Knopf

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