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An Original Guide to Creative Writing

 

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.  Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain

How is it that books ever come to be written? Is literary quality influenced by politics? Is an authoring-machine possible? What are the motives for writing?

  Orwell, Literature & liberty (Margin: Why I write)

What is the purpose of studies? What kind of reading can help me? How reading ways change according to the difference of books?

  Francis Bacon, Reading & writing as moral activities (Margin: Anatole France, Taking copies. Diary: Kierkegaard, knowing to laugh)

Are fairy tales always for children only?

  Urariano Mota, Hans Christian Andersen - O patinho bonito

What are the limits of observation and deduction for a successful essay?

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The author of essays is a detective!

 

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