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 think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
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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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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
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I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.
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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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Imagination is my best friend.
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
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The Pew Biomedical Scholars are a synergistic community whose connections are reinforced over the years.
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I can't comment on any outside perception. I'm happy to come out and talk about movies that I've worked on in a setting like this. Otherwise, I have my own life that I live which is very different and private.
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A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.
