Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!

Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.

If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.

It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.

Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in which we can guide our creative thinking.

Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.

Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

If we have not changed, we have not learned

At times, it felt so odd being with a man in such an intimate way who was not my husband.

When the bell rings, and lunch is over, I decide to come back here tomorrow, and the next day. I tell myself it really isn’t that bad.

Appetite is governed by our thoughts, but hunger is governed by the body.

Why belittle others and make a lot of enemies for yourself, when you could earn their utmost respect by teaching them some valuable things?

Pampered content is a public resignation of artistic integrity.

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.

It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.

Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.