The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.
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Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.John Updike
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Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
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Suspect each moment, for it is a thief,tiptoeing away withmore than it brings.
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I think ''taste'' is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
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