“Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to…”

— Rollo May

“The human imagination leaps to form the whole, to complete the scene in order to make sense of it.”

— Rollo May

“They do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. They knock on silence for an answering music; they pursue…”

— Rollo May

“Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.”

— Rollo May

“Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember.”

— Ray Bradbury

“The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a…”

— John Galsworthy

“You know how a play in dialect is. At the first act, you think, "How quaint!"; at the second act, you wish they would either stop using dialect or keep quiet; and at the third…”

— Dorothy Parker

“Of course, there are many things to be said for the afternoon performance, chief among them being that it cuts in so generously on one's work.”

— Dorothy Parker

“The price of contributing to the greatest literature the world has ever seen is often struggle and penury: art is still too often its own reward.”

— Anthony Burgess

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