Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
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I'm sure the president doesn't enjoy being called deporter-in-chief.
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I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing.
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A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.
