"To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether."

-- Paul Twitchell

#Giving Up Quotes #Creative Quotes #Creation Quotes

“I have been very afraid of writing about other cultures and countries. I've been worried about getting the research wrong. I ask a lot of questions. I try to visit the area. If I'm not able to do that, I search out people from that country who live elsewhere and ask questions.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.”
“Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.”
“I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing cardâ€¦and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.”

Source : Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state”
“I read poetry to save time.”
“And what has become of it, where is that onetime love? Now it is the grave of a bird, a drop of black quartz, a chunk of wood eroded by the rain.”

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