"To have the ability to withdraw into oneself and forget everything around one when one is creating - What, I think is the only requirement for being able to bring forth something beautiful. The whole thing is - a mystery."

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Source : Edvard Grieg, Richard Yates (2010). “Edvard Grieg: 16 Lyric Pieces”, p.24, Mel Bay Publications

Edvard Grieg

#Beautiful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Creating Quotes

“Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.”

Source : Bonnie Friedman (1993). “Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer's life”
“Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.”
“It's interesting that in searching for monsters to play you often end up playing leaders.”
“It takes a truly cool girl to pull off short-shorts and rain boots.”
“Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.”
“There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.”
“Hunger makes a fool of a man.”
“How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?”

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