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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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
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I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd.
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Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.
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The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.
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The first thing you learn about the music business is that it changes very quickly. You come into it at a certain point and you think you have a handle on it... And then, three years later, the whole thing has been turned upside-down.
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A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.
