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There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#mythical-beasts #stardust #experience

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#difficult #end #fiction #fiction writer #figure

When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice. ↗

— Sarah Vaughan

#i #notice #right #shoulder #sing

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#experience

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#insights #into #magnificent #man #nature

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#hungry #knowledge #new #new knowledge #species

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#because #become #experience #human #human experience

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#i #i write #sabbath #six #six days

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#certainly #close #creativity #heard #i

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#chip #create #figure #find #following